Managed mounts and cygwin 1.7

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:14:23AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 29 10:22, Albrecht Schlosser wrote:
>>As I understand it, cygwin 1.7 won't support the old 1.5 managed
>>mounts, but will have another filename encoding for non-ASCII
>>filenames.  IIRC, I read that all code for the old managed mounts has
>>been removed from cygwin 1.7.
>>
>>I'm just curious: How would users of managed mounts transform their
>>file(name) data to the new encoding, once they have upgraded their
>>cygwin version?  Would they need to tar the files _before_ upgrading
>>and untar _after_ updrading?  Will there be a tool to convert the
>>filenames?
>
>There's no conversion path for now.  If somebody is interested in
>writing a tool (a shell script would suffice) to convert managed
>mounted files to normal filenames, the effort would be highly
>appreciated.

Also, just tarring up the files prior to the conversion and untarring
them afterwards should suffice to do the conversion.

cgf

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