> -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com [mailto:cygwin-owner at > cygwin dot com] On Behalf Of Christian Franke > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 10:34 > To: cygwin at cygwin dot com > Subject: Re: Mount of VSS volumes (//?/GLOBALROOT/...) does not work > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Nov 7 15:41, Christian Franke wrote: > > > > > > The access to the path works, except the access to the > root dir of > > > the volume. It appears as a regular file which apparently > provides > > > raw read access to the partition: > > > > > > $ ls -l '//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1' > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 ... 0 Dec 1 2006 > //?/.../HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1 $ > > > xxd '//?/GLOBALROOT/Device/HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1' > > > 0000000: eb52 904e 5446 5320 2020 2000 0208 0000 .R.NTFS ..... > > > > > > > The windows path handling code in Cygwin doesn't recognize > the path as > > the path to a drive's root dir. The path normalization > code removes > > all trailing backslashes. When accessing a root dir, > Windows requires > > a trailing backslash. When accessing the volume without > the trailing > > backslash, it's opened for raw access. > > > > Now I understand where the problem is. Thanks. > > > > This is still a highly unusual situation from a POSIXy > point of view. > > I'm not sure I want to slow down Cygwin for this any further. It
Could this be explained please? > > seems the ability to mount a shadow volume as a dos drive is > > sufficient for this kind of problem, isn't it? > > > > I agree. The dosdev.exe is no longer downloadable from Microsoft. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00. -- 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/