True case-sensitive filenames

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Mon Jan 20 10:00:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 05:35:57PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> IIRC, there is a CYGWIN variable option for this already.

No, there isn't.  Sergey had a patch relative to b18 or b19 once but
it never made it into the Cygwin source.

Corinna

> 
> Earnie.
> 
> Gerald S. Williams wrote:
> >The Perl File::Spec thread/rant/whatever on the cygwin list got
> >me thinking. To resolve the Windows case-insensitivity problem
> >(e.g., "makefile" == "Makefile"), Linda W. seemed to suggest
> >creating a new file system driver with a special Cygwin API.
> >

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