On May 29 11:14, Micky wrote: > > That's not what you wrote in your OP. You wrote "but it doesn't let you > > access the volumes as block devices", which is pretty misleading as far > > as bug reports go. > > Sorry for not being clear enough. > > > The endless loop problem accessing the device via /proc/sys/... should > > be fixed in CVS now. > > > > Thanks for such an instant fix. > > > I created a new developer snapshot. Please give the 2012-05-28 Cygwin > > DLL from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try. I also created a new 64 > > bit test release Cygwin package 1.7.19-8 with this patch included. > > I am gonna test it out soon and will report back.
I'm looking forward to your feedback. Btw., as a sidenote, are you aware that you can access the filesystem underneath the volume shadow copy as well? Try this (note the trailing backslash!): $ cd /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/ $ ls The only downside is that you can't cd into the root dir of the shadowcopy by using a ".." expression: $ cd /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1/Users $ cd .. /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1: Not a directory. $ cd ../ /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1: Not a directory. Here the path handling strips off the trailing backslash and what's left is a block device called /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1. With that in mind, it's quite usable, though. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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