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Re: Managed mounts and cygwin 1.7


On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 06:02:23PM +0200, Albrecht Schlosser wrote:
> 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 ;-)

So, in that case, Corinna's comment applies and there really is no need
to enter a loop on this subject.

cgf

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