From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29558 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 2010 04:33:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 29548 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Mar 2010 04:33:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_FAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from qmta15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (HELO qmta15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.27.228) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:33:35 +0000 Received: from omta21.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.88]) by qmta15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id pFva1d0041u4NiLAFGZaQ3; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:33:34 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.5] ([24.10.247.83]) by omta21.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id pGZY1d00S1ohlF48hGZZ2K; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:33:34 +0000 Message-ID: <4B9089A2.5070707@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:33:00 -0000 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: managed mounts. hindsight sadness at their departure References: <4B90817E.5020309@shaddybaddah.name> In-Reply-To: <4B90817E.5020309@shaddybaddah.name> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7149777BB94B22A7E8E815B2" X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00055.txt.bz2 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7149777BB94B22A7E8E815B2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 841 According to Shaddy Baddah on 3/4/2010 8:58 PM: > > - File names 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). > But now in hindsight, one feature of the managed mounts that I counted > as not significant enough to keep it included, seems to me to have a > kind of valid use case. That is allowing multiple files of the same name > differing only in case. Request case sensitivity from windows, and you have that feature back. >=20 > Not that I'd assert that this is reason enough to have kept the managed > mounts, it is just an unfortunate limitation that 1.7 now has over 1.5. No, it is not a limitation, provided you follow the instructions. $ touch a A $ ls ? A a --------------enig7149777BB94B22A7E8E815B2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-length: 320 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuQiaIACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCSrwCgquM8Rl+Ru6Ba/b2VIzXOxtI4 lk4AnjJ40y/DmnftO9Byl98LaVdQq5E7 =x+/+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7149777BB94B22A7E8E815B2--