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Subject: RE: [1.7.0 HEAD]: Cygwin no longer encoding/decoding names on managed  mounts
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:49:31 -0000
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On 15 January 2008 03:11, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:

>> 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.

  Oh yeh, forgot there were still a few things that can't be handled in wchar
mode.  And looking at it the source, it still seems like it's supposed to
munge uppercase chars, so I guess this /is/ a bug rather than a
work-in-progress.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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