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Re: managed mount and move directory.


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According to Larry Hall (Cygwin) on 8/7/2008 10:27 PM:
| On 08/08/2008, SungHyun Nam wrote:
|> If a directory contains filename whose name includes capital
|> letter, I cannot move the directory correctly from non-managed
|> filesystem to the managed filesystem.
|>
|> Is it expected?
|
| Yes.  The munging of file names happens only for files created
| under the managed mount.  Files created in directories outside
| of managed mounts or created in the directory used for managed
| mounts prior to the mount are not supported.  Try 'cp' instead.

Or help out, by writing a patch to cygwin1.dll that returns EXDEV when
attempting to rename(2) directories across managed mount points, rather
than letting rename continue.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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