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Re: NFS server/exports - exported path with embedded spaces is not successful

From: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, d dot o dot newbold at gmail dot com
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:51:43 -0600
Subject: Re: NFS server/exports - exported path with embedded spaces is not successful
References: <4bbb9e8c.e302be0a.2f7a.fffff101@mx.google.com>

On 04/06/2010 02:50 PM, D O Newbold wrote:
> 
> I've read the man page and find no clarification on the embedded space
> case.
> I don't know if this is a bug or just a shortcoming.

Just a matter of not reading in the right place (although admittedly the
man page could also mention this).
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table

If the name of the mount point contains spaces these can be escaped as
'\040'.

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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