On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 07:44:07AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Larry Hall (Cygwin) on 8/7/2008 10:27 PM: > | On 08/08/2008, SungHyun Nam wrote: > |> If a directory contains filename whose name includes capital > |> letter, I cannot move the directory correctly from non-managed > |> filesystem to the managed filesystem. > |> > |> Is it expected? > | > | Yes. The munging of file names happens only for files created > | under the managed mount. Files created in directories outside > | of managed mounts or created in the directory used for managed > | mounts prior to the mount are not supported. Try 'cp' instead. > > Or help out, by writing a patch to cygwin1.dll that returns EXDEV when > attempting to rename(2) directories across managed mount points, rather > than letting rename continue.
Since managed mount doesn't exist in 1.7.x, a patch would really not be worthwhile. We would not release a new version of 1.5.x just for this. -- 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/
