Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:42:21PM +1200, Morgan Read wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:21:45AM +1200, Morgan Read wrote: >>>> Lots of refs to the case sensitivity nightmare in archives, but couldn't >>>> find any to ntfs' obcaseinsensitive registry option >>>> (HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\kernel\ >>>> dword:ObCaseInsensitive see here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817921) >>>> >>>> So, does anyone know: >>>> * If this provides case sensitivity to cygwin (as it seems to to >>>> SFU/Interix)? >> ... >> >>> Sorry but there are too many strcasecmp's sprinkled throughout cygwin's >>> code to feel confident that it would work well at all. >> Huh, you mean cygwin's been written not to take advantage of a case >> sensitive file system even where it exists!? > > Cygwin has been written to handle the most mind-bogglingly common case > of a case-insensitive filesystem rather than detecting and special > casing the extremely rare occurrence of an NTFS filesystem with case > sensitivity turned on. I appreciate that. Thank you, M.
-- Morgan Read NEW ZEALAND <mailto:mstuffATreadDOTorgDOTnz> fedora: Freedom Forever! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview "By choosing not to ship any proprietary or binary drivers, Fedora does differ from other distributions. ..." Quote: Max Spevik http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/17/177220 RMS on fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeSoftwareAnalysis/FSF
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