RE: Cygwin and crosstool! (vmlinux.lds.asm problem with 2.6.12.5 case-insensitive build patch from crosstool)

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

----Original Message----
>From: Dan Kegel
>Sent: 26 August 2005 16:50

> Dave Korn wrote:
>>   Actually, I'm not building that module, so just getting it to stop
>> causing conflicts in my cvs was all I needed!
> 
> Ah.  Deleting the files would work, too :-)

  "To a bofh with an rm-rf, every problem looks like a superfluous file" :)

>>>>  Yeh, that's a better option long-term.  I'm not so happy with the
>>>> mangled names and the overhead though, but fortunately I just
>>>> discovered FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS, so I can always throw something
>>>> together. 
>>> 
>>> Boy, you like pain, don't you? :-)
>> 
>>   What's so wrong with making use of the fact that NTFS can be made to
>> operate in a case-sensitive manner?
> 
> If you can get all accesses to be case-sensitive
> by default, then great, I'm all for it.
> Is there a way to mount directories with
> that option?  In my ten second look at it, I only
> saw it mentioned as applying to individual file open calls.
> - Dan


  For it to work on directories, you have to set the ObCaseInsensitive
registry value to zero.  See e.g.
http://www.osronline.com/lists_archive/ntfsd/thread4129.html or
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817921.  For linux
kernel cross-builds, it's only filenames rather than dir names we're worried
about, but I still reckon that a patch to provide posix-flag mount points
might be a useful kind of 'managed mount lite' feature.



    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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