From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23947 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 2010 09:36:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 23940 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Mar 2010 09:36:00 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:35:56 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id EEE496D4360; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:35:53 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:36:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: managed mounts. hindsight sadness at their departure Message-ID: <20100305093553.GH7980@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com References: <4B90817E.5020309@shaddybaddah.name> <4B9089A2.5070707@redhat.com> <4B909067.8050409@shaddybaddah.name> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B909067.8050409@shaddybaddah.name> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-q1/txt/msg00057.txt.bz2 On Mar 5 05:02, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > On 5/03/2010 4:33 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > >Request case sensitivity from windows, and you have that feature back. > > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive > [...] > Many thanks for pointing it out. I was completely unaware that Windows > was capable of case sensitive file naming. I must admit that my > entrenched views of Windows capabilities in this area make me a little > bit apprehensive of possible side-effects to turning this on. In your > experience, are there any? I'm using it all the time and have no problems, but, still, Win32 applications have no idea what to do with 2 files only differing by case. Best you keep directories with such files separate. > Of course, I will still try it anyway. That's the spirit! Corinna