X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: References: <478BD708.9020909@gmail.com> <03ae01c8571d$cfd378f0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Subject: RE: [1.7.0 HEAD]: Cygwin no longer encoding/decoding names on managed mounts Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:11:00 -0600 Message-ID: <000001c85724$418dcb70$020aa8c0@DFW5RB41> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <03ae01c8571d$cfd378f0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 > From: Dave Korn > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 8:25 PM > Subject: RE: [1.7.0 HEAD]: Cygwin no longer encoding/decoding > names on managed mounts > > On 14 January 2008 21:41, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > > > I'm not sure when this cropped up, but it happened sometime > after the > > great "win 9x" code purge. The problem is that the Cygwin dll no > > longer decodes or encodes file/directory names on managed mounts. > > Isn't that the whole idea? > Managed mounts? They're intended to handle names with things like ":" in them, which will choke Windows no matter what year is in its name. > cheers, > DaveK > -- > Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... > -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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/