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Subject: Re: Managed mounts and cygwin 1.7
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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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