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Re: Managed mounts and cygwin 1.7
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:14:23 +0200
- Subject: Re: Managed mounts and cygwin 1.7
- References: <48B7B1AB.1080200@go4more.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Aug 29 10:22, Albrecht Schlosser wrote:
> As I understand it, cygwin 1.7 won't support the old 1.5 managed
> mounts, but will have another filename encoding for non-ASCII
> filenames. IIRC, I read that all code for the old managed mounts
> has been removed from cygwin 1.7.
>
> I'm just curious: How would users of managed mounts transform
> their file(name) data to the new encoding, once they have
> upgraded their cygwin version? Would they need to tar the
> files _before_ upgrading and untar _after_ updrading? Will
> there be a tool to convert the filenames?
There's no conversion path for now. If somebody is interested in
writing a tool (a shell script would suffice) to convert managed mounted
files to normal filenames, the effort would be highly appreciated.
Corinna
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