X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:20:45 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Managed mounts and cygwin 1.7 Message-ID: <20080829162044.GA20746@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <48B7B1AB DOT 1080200 AT go4more DOT de> <20080829091423 DOT GD29104 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20080829135010 DOT GB19947 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <48B81D8F DOT 7060000 AT go4more DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48B81D8F.7060000@go4more.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 06:02:23PM +0200, Albrecht Schlosser wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:14:23AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >>Also, just tarring up the files prior to the conversion and untarring >>them afterwards should suffice to do the conversion. >> >Yes, that's what I assumed, but you would have to know that before you >press the install button with cygwin 1.7 selected ;-) So, in that case, Corinna's comment applies and there really is no need to enter a loop on this subject. cgf -- 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/