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Re: Mount of VSS volumes (//?/GLOBALROOT/...) does not work
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:11:08 +0100
- Subject: Re: Mount of VSS volumes (//?/GLOBALROOT/...) does not work
- References: <1KyQ6X-0Eq5dw0@fwd11.aul.t-online.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Nov 7 13:06, Christian Franke wrote:
> According to
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00359.html
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-patches/2006-q4/msg00008.html
> Cygwin includes support to mount a //?/GLOBALROOT/... path
No, it doesn't. It allows to *access* the path, but the mount call
follows a somewhat different route. You can only access the path
directly (a concenssion to a necessity which has no POSIX equivalent)
or, as you did, map the VSS volume to a drive letter. The patch is not
in 1.5.25, btw., only in 1.7.0.
Corinna
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