cygwin 1.5.0 managed mode & backward compatibility
Christopher Faylor
cgf-idd@cygwin.com
Thu Jul 17 14:54:00 GMT 2003
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:12:09AM +0200, Pavel Rozenboim wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:48:28PM +0200, Pavel Rozenboim wrote:
>> directories (/,/usr/bin,
>> >/usr/lib) in managed mode. Now I can't access files that
>> have a capital
>> >letters that were created before upgrade to 1.5.0.
>>
>> *exactly*
>>
>> Don't do that. Do not use managed mode on your old
>> directories. It is
>> called "managed" for a reason. Cygwin wants to manage all
>> file creations.
>> So, the only way to use it is to create an empty directory, mount it
>> as managed, and then populate it with files.
>
>Do you have any plans to provide backward/windows compatibility for managed
>mode?
No. None whatsoever.
cgf
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