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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@sourceware.org> To: cygwin-cvs@sourceware.org Subject: [newlib-cygwin] Cygwin: doc: update case-sensitive dirs description Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 13:14:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20190304131431.16400.qmail@sourceware.org> (raw) https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=c18f7d72dc5554b1e12f035fcf7d66be25ee3881 commit c18f7d72dc5554b1e12f035fcf7d66be25ee3881 Author: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> Date: Mon Mar 4 14:03:32 2019 +0100 Cygwin: doc: update case-sensitive dirs description Since we have to disable automatic case-sensitive mkdir again, change documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> Diff: --- winsup/doc/specialnames.xml | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml b/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml index f278360..1120f86 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml @@ -230,13 +230,26 @@ feature available via <literal>Programs and Features</literal> -> turning <literal>WSL</literal> on and performing the compulsory reboot, case-sensitive directories are activated.</para> -<para>With <literal>WSL</literal> activated and starting with Cygwin 3.0, -Cygwin's <command>mkdir</command> system call will automatically create all +<para>Of course, there's a drawback. While these case-sensitive directories +work like charm on the local machine, there are massive interoperability +problems when trying to access these directories from remote machines at +the time of writing this. We opened a bug report for that at +<ulink url="https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3885">Microsoft's WSL issue tracker</ulink>, +if you're interested in the details.</para> + +<note><para>If you want case-sensitivity and need interoperability with remote +machines, better stick to switching the kernel to case-sensitivity as +outlined in <xref linkend="pathnames-casesensitive"></xref></para></note> + +<para>With <literal>WSL</literal> activated and starting with Cygwin 3.0.0, +Cygwin's <command>mkdir</command> system call automatically created all directories below the Cygwin installation directory as case-sensitive. -Directories created outside the Cygwin installation tree will be left -alone. However, you can use Cygwin's new <xref linkend="chattr"></xref> tool -with the <literal>-C</literal> option to control case-sensitivity of -directories on NTFS filesystems.</para> +With Cygwin 3.0.2, this feature had been disabled again for hopefully +obvious reasons.</para> + +<para>However, you can still use Cygwin's new +<xref linkend="chattr"></xref> tool with the <literal>-C</literal> option +to control case-sensitivity of directories on NTFS filesystems.</para> <para>Please keep in mind that switching <emphasis>off</emphasis> case-sensitivity on a directory has a condition attached to it: If
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