On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:43:17AM +0100, Vince Hoffman wrote: > > >> Work remains to to fix authFile (change the colon character to >> something storeable on the NTFS filesystem) and to add >> ntsec setuid code to permit non-setuid-privilened user >> authentications. > >With the new (experimental) 1.5 cygwin dll its now possible to have a cygwin >"managed" mount which allows special characters and names (like a colon for >instance). >see <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00248.html> >As CGF as said its not quite ready for prime time yet but it might help you.
The implementation in 1.5.0 is broken. The last cygwin snapshot should be better. I only recommend this for empty directories or directories/files created after a mount. The potential for confusion is too great otherwise. cgf
