Corinna Vinschen writes: > In Cygwin 1.7 you can do this for any subdir in your volume shadow copy: > > $ ls -l //?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/subdir > > It just doesn't work for the root directory of a drive due to internal > path handling restrictions. But there's a simple workaround. Use your > own tool as below. > > The only hack that I have found to get around this is to use an *old*, > *unsupported* Microsoft routine called 'dosdev' which allows you to > assign drive letters to devices, including using the GLOBALROOT > format. > >Try this: > > $ cat > DefDosDevice.c << EOF
Cool.... Two follow-up questions: 1. Any idea how this differs from dosdev.exe? Is it faster/slower? More/less robust? More/less portable? 2. Should this short routine be added somewhere in the cygwin distribution? It seems incredibly useful and simple. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Accessing-GLOBALROOT-paths---a-potential-compromise----tp26175496p26222690.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
