Surprising results (ls: no such file or directory) with managed mounts

Eric Blake ericblake@comcast.net
Tue Feb 20 00:54:00 GMT 2007


> Cygwin managed mounts give surprising (to me) results if a filename that's
> not in its canonical form manages to get below the managed mountpoint:

The real fix, which I've mentioned before, would be
altering rename() to fail with EXDEV when renaming
files across managed mount points.  But as I don't
have copyright assignment in place for cygwin1.dll,
I'm relying on someone else to write such a patch.
In the meantime, just don't do that.

-- 
Eric Blake

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