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Subject: Re: Mount of VSS volumes (//?/GLOBALROOT/...) does not work
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov  7 15:41, Christian Franke wrote:
> > 
> > The access to the path works, except the access to the root dir of
> > the volume. It appears as a regular file which apparently provides
> > raw read access to the partition:
> > 
> > $ ls -l '//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1'
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 ... 0 Dec  1  2006 //?/.../HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1 
> > $ xxd '//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1'
> > 0000000: eb52 904e 5446 5320 2020 2000 0208 0000  .R.NTFS    .....
> > 
> 
> The windows path handling code in Cygwin doesn't recognize the path as
> the path to a drive's root dir.  The path normalization code removes
> all trailing backslashes.  When accessing a root dir, Windows requires
> a trailing backslash.  When accessing the volume without the trailing
> backslash, it's opened for raw access.
> 

Now I understand where the problem is. Thanks.


> This is still a highly unusual situation from a POSIXy point of view.
> I'm not sure I want to slow down Cygwin for this any further.  It
> seems the ability to mount a shadow volume as a dos drive is
> sufficient for this kind of problem, isn't it?
> 

I agree.

Christian




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