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Ah. Deleting the files would work, too :-)
"To a bofh with an rm-rf, every problem looks like a superfluous file" :)
That's me! :-) I gotta admit, when I saw that episode of BOFH the first time back in the early 90's, I ROTFL.
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.
Oh. You're proposing a patch to cygwin to add a new mount option? Sounds like a cool idea. Hmm. Googling around, I see people have been using that flag at least in a hacky way for a long time: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/1997-05/msg00404.html
Corinna objects to it, though; she said on 22 Jul 2004 22:46:44 in a message in thread "Re: Slight problem with case sensitivity on managed mounts with C VS-1.1" archived at http://www.newsarch.com/archive/mailinglist/cygwin/msg09026.html : >The problem in using FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS is this: Any other >application which doesn't use that flag might get seriously confused >by having two files which only differ in case.
And then there's this: http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg19268.html
Good luck. If you do implement the mount flag, let me know, I'll gladly post a link to the patch in the crosstool doc.
But before you do: what *is* the overhead of managed mode mounts? - Dan
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