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Subject: Re: Accessing GLOBALROOT paths - a potential compromise???
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On Nov  3 16:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov  3 16:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >   $ ./DefDosDevice X: '\??\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1
> >   $ cd /mnt/x
> 
> Oops... replace /mnt/x with /cygdrive/x.  I have changed my cygdrive
> prefix to /mnt locally.  Sorry for any confusion.

Out of curiosity I experimented some more with this, and it's 
even more simple than that.  Defining X: like this:

  $ ./DefDosDevice X: '\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1'

works out of the box, even with Windows Explorer.


Corinna

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