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Re: Managed mounts and cygwin 1.7


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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