Re: case sensitivity bug?

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 10/19/2016 7:27 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep 20 20:33, Ken Brown wrote:
>> I've set up my Cygwin installation to be case sensitive, following the instructions at
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive
>>
>> But it doesn't seem to be working as I expect.  For example:
>>
>> $ mkdir a
>>
>> $ mkdir A
>>
>> $ ls -al [aA]
>> a:
>> total 100
>> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 kbrown       None 0 2016-09-20 20:18 ./
>> drwxrwxrwt+ 1 kbrown-admin None 0 2016-09-20 20:19 ../
>>
>> A:
>> total 100
>> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 kbrown       None 0 2016-09-20 20:19 ./
>> drwxrwxrwt+ 1 kbrown-admin None 0 2016-09-20 20:19 ../
>>
>> $ mv a A
>> mv: cannot move 'a' to a subdirectory of itself, 'A/a'
>>
>> Why does mv think that A and a are the same directory?
>>
>> Here's another example, where mv should simply do a rename, but it doesn't:
>>
>> $ rmdir A
>>
>> $ mv a A
>>
>> $ ls -al a
>> total 100
>> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 kbrown       None 0 2016-09-20 20:18 ./
>> drwxrwxrwt+ 1 kbrown-admin None 0 2016-09-20 20:30 ../
>>
>> $ ls -al A
>> ls: cannot access 'A': No such file or directory
>>
>> cygcheck output is attached.
>
> Looks like a *very* old misbehaviour.  I applied a patch to Cygwin
> to fix this.  I'll create a snapshot later today, please test.

That fixes it.  Thanks.

Ken


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