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Re: Accessing GLOBALROOT paths - a potential compromise???
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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