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RE: [1.7.0 HEAD]: Cygwin no longer encoding/decoding names on managed mounts
> From: Dave Korn
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 8:25 PM
> Subject: RE: [1.7.0 HEAD]: Cygwin no longer encoding/decoding
> names on managed mounts
>
> On 14 January 2008 21:41, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure when this cropped up, but it happened sometime
> after the
> > great "win 9x" code purge. The problem is that the Cygwin dll no
> > longer decodes or encodes file/directory names on managed mounts.
>
> Isn't that the whole idea?
>
Managed mounts? They're intended to handle names with things like ":" in
them, which will choke Windows no matter what year is in its name.
> cheers,
> DaveK
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