From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7437 invoked by alias); 27 May 2011 16:12:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 7232 invoked by uid 22791); 27 May 2011 16:11:41 -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, 27 May 2011 16:11:25 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id A719D2CB9E4; Fri, 27 May 2011 18:11:21 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 16:12:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: File Name Case Sensitivity & Globbing! Was: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual? Message-ID: <20110527161121.GI28752@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4DDE9BE5.90105@veritech.com> <20110526193553.GB6015@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4DDEB0BA.9030903@veritech.com> <20110527052926.GE28752@calimero.vinschen.de> <4DDFC8EC.8060507@veritech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DDFC8EC.8060507@veritech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-05/txt/msg00430.txt.bz2 On May 27 11:53, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > > You got that wrong. The CYGWIN=glob:... option only affects how > > globbing is performed on the command line arguments if the Cygwin > > process has been started from a native Windows process. Full stop. > > I acknowledged *my* MISTAKE. I do so again. So actually I got it wrong. > The point remains: > > Globbing is case sensitive while full command name > invocation/full filename use is not. And, you may never have > been confused by that, but I maintain it's very confusing. I'm > not asking that it be "fixed", I'm asking that it be carefully > documented, and I'm not asking anyone but me to do it. If it is > so documented, I missed it. And, I read and reread that part of > the manual before posting both times. If anybody says our documentation is lacking, I'm the last to deny it. If you feel up to the task, patches to the documentation are more than welcome. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple