Managed mounts and cygwin 1.7

[Albrecht Schlosser]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.
>   
Yes, that's what I assumed, but you would have to know that before you 
press the install
button with cygwin 1.7 selected ;-)

Albrecht


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