Re: Regarding Globalroot

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On May  2 17:19, Ravi Agrawal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>       I am using cygwin 1.5.24. After running vshadow
> i get a snapshot. To access that snapshot i get a
> string "\\?\GLOBALROOT\...... But when i try to mount
> //?/GLOBALROOT...  /dump_mount it says me invalid
> argument. After doing some research i find that their
> is workarround for this(that is to use ? instead of
> dot). Their are couple of changes in
> src/winsup/cygwin/path.cc and
> src/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc. This fix was
> around oct 2006. But this is not working. I guess that
> this updates files may not be included in 1.5.24
> release. 

Right, they are only in CVS HEAD.  You could try running a developer
snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ at your own risk.


Corinna

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