* Corinna Vinschen (03-02-25 12:51 +0100) > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:42:02PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> * Corinna Vinschen (03-02-25 12:20 +0100) >>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:09:46AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>>> * Christopher Faylor (03-02-25 06:06 +0100) >>>>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 02:48:05PM +1000, John Williams wrote: >>>>>> Is there a way to enable case sensitivity in filenames under Cygwin? >>>>> >>>>> No there isn't. Sorry. >>>> >>>> What about "SET CYGWIN=check_case:strict"? >>> >>> It's a hack. >> >> I knew you were a hacker... ;-) . But is it "working" reliably? And if >> not - why is it mentioned in the Cygwin documentation about the CYGWIN >> environment variable? > > - It's not changing the case insensitivity of the underlying FS.
Yes, of course. > - Therefore it only fakes case insensitivity in the API so it's > reliability is restricted. Yes, but in my opinion it could be of use to John Williams because he wanted to "case sensitivity in filenames under Cygwin". I don't know, so he might try or not. Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/