Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:30:05 +0100 From: Elfyn McBratney X-X-Sender: elfyn@ellixia Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Pavel Rozenboim cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin 1.5.0 managed mode & backward compatibility In-Reply-To: <6A3008858445D711A58A00062939B2F1EB00@EXCHANGE> Message-ID: References: <6A3008858445D711A58A00062939B2F1EB00@EXCHANGE> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: > Hi, > > I installed cygwin 1.5.0 and remounted all cygwin directories (/,/usr/bin, > /usr/lib) in managed mode. Now I can't access files that have a capital > letters that were created before upgrade to 1.5.0. > > pavel@PAVEL ~ > $ ls > /bin/ls: GNUstep: No such file or directory > /bin/ls: QB: No such file or directory > /bin/ls: QB1: No such file or directory > /bin/ls: QB2: No such file or directory > /bin/ls: Sol: No such file or directory > /bin/ls: Sol1: No such file or directory > /bin/ls: TL: No such file or directory > /bin/ls: WL: No such file or directory > > it is possible to access these files if their names are typed in non-capital > letters. Managed mode is meant to be used from scratch on an empty directory, not a directory that already has contents and *not* for the kitchen sink. Put it this way: If you want to have access to those files, revert your mount-table. To anyone else who wishes to re-mount their entire Cygwin installation under managed mode, please make sure you seek advice from your therapist before doing so. Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB | http://www.nongnu.org/wwwauth/ http://www.emcb.co.uk | http://www.emcb.co.uk/webauth/ elfyn@emcb.co.uk | wwwauth-users AT nongnu DOT org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/