Re: File Name Case Sensitivity & Globbing! Was: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 27 16:36, Edward McGuire wrote: > This note: > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive > > warns that you cannot have two filenames in the same directory that > differ only by case, because of NTFS semantics. No, it does not. *sigh* I'm not a na

Re: File Name Case Sensitivity & Globbing! Was: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 09:50:22AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Did I make myself clear now? Yep. Perfectly. I think the discussion prior to your explication brings new meaning to the term "case insensitivity". cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: untarring symlinks with ../ fails randomly

2011-05-28 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/27/2011 11:54 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 04/27/2011 09:50 AM, Dan Grayson wrote: Here is a patch to tar that fixes the problem by using mtime instead of ctime. Yes, it's not a problem with cygwin or tar, but I see no way for users to figure out, under Windows, which processes are changing the