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Subject: Re: Mount of VSS volumes (//?/GLOBALROOT/...) does not work
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On Nov  7 13:06, Christian Franke wrote:
> According to
>   http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00359.html
>   http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-patches/2006-q4/msg00008.html
> Cygwin includes support to mount a //?/GLOBALROOT/... path

No, it doesn't.  It allows to *access* the path, but the mount call
follows a somewhat different route.  You can only access the path
directly (a concenssion to a necessity which has no POSIX equivalent)
or, as you did, map the VSS volume to a drive letter.  The patch is not
in 1.5.25, btw., only in 1.7.0.


Corinna

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