On May 2 17:19, Ravi Agrawal wrote: > Hello, > > I am using cygwin 1.5.24. After running vshadow > i get a snapshot. To access that snapshot i get a > string "\\?\GLOBALROOT\...... But when i try to mount > //?/GLOBALROOT... /dump_mount it says me invalid > argument. After doing some research i find that their > is workarround for this(that is to use ? instead of > dot). Their are couple of changes in > src/winsup/cygwin/path.cc and > src/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc. This fix was > around oct 2006. But this is not working. I guess that > this updates files may not be included in 1.5.24 > release.
Right, they are only in CVS HEAD. You could try running a developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ at your own risk. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
