On Tuesday, February 20 2007, "Eric Blake" wrote to "Jonathan Lennox, [email protected]" saying:
> > Cygwin managed mounts give surprising (to me) results if a filename that's > > not in its canonical form manages to get below the managed mountpoint: > > The real fix, which I've mentioned before, would be > altering rename() to fail with EXDEV when renaming > files across managed mount points. But as I don't > have copyright assignment in place for cygwin1.dll, > I'm relying on someone else to write such a patch. > In the meantime, just don't do that. True, but these non-canonical filenames can also arise if you do "mount -f -o managed EXISTING-WIN-DIR". The "just don't do that" argument also applies there, of course, but that's an idiom used by many pre-cygport package build scripts. (Cygport leaves off the -f, avoiding the problem.) And, of course, any non-Cygwin program writing to the managed directory can create file names not in the canonical form. -- Jonathan Lennox lennox at cs dot columbia dot edu -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
