From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24588 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2008 07:39:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 24558 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Jul 2008 07:39:17 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:38:59 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 719A26D4354; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:39:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:39:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2 Message-ID: <20080731073904.GK22149@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <20080717155516.GC5675@calimero.vinschen.de> <4891623B.5060905@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4891623B.5060905@users.sourceforge.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-07/txt/msg00191.txt.bz2 On Jul 31 01:56, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > | - Creating filenames with special DOS characters '"', '*', ':', '<', > | '>', '|' is supported. > | > | - Creating files with special DOS device filename components ("aux", > | "nul", "prn") is supported. > | > | - File name are case sensitive if the OS and the underlying file system > | supports it. Works on NTFS and NFS. Does not work on FAT and Samba > | shares. Requires to change a registry key (see the user's guide). > | Can be switched off on a per-mount base. > > But does/will setup.exe know what to do with a package containing such > filenames? setup is a Win32 application. It won't know about this. Thou shalt not create packages which rely on case-sensitivity as part of the net distro. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat