X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:16:12 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Accessing GLOBALROOT paths - a potential compromise??? Message-ID: <20091103161612.GQ7831@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <19183.53891.243601.62109@consult.pretender> <20091103154430.GO7831@calimero.vinschen.de> <20091103155403.GP7831@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091103155403.GP7831@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 On Nov 3 16:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 3 16:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > $ ./DefDosDevice X: '\??\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1 > > $ cd /mnt/x > > Oops... replace /mnt/x with /cygdrive/x. I have changed my cygdrive > prefix to /mnt locally. Sorry for any confusion. Out of curiosity I experimented some more with this, and it's even more simple than that. Defining X: like this: $ ./DefDosDevice X: '\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1' works out of the box, even with Windows Explorer. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple