Re: fstab 1.7: spaces in win32path

[Martin Muenstermann <martin dot muenstermann at trustcenter dot de>]

Brian Dessent wrote:
> > after my last update of cygwin, I found myself in the cygwin 1.7 world
> > (uname -rv: 1.7.0(0.185/5/2) 2008-05-25 20:10).
>
> That was not intentional, the 1.7 update was meant to go to the testing
> area.

Ooops.
Should (and can) I go back to 1.5?


> > My problem:
> > I haven't found a way to mount a win32path containing spaces (like
> > "c:\\Dokumente und Einstellungen\\myself") through fstab. Tried
> > enclosing it with " and/or escaping the spaces (\ ).
> > C:\\Dokumente\ und\ Einstellungen\\myself /DOS    some_fs text   0 0
>
> It's done the same as on linux, using \nnn where nnn is the octal value
> of the character.

Thanks, that did it.

Martin


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