From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problems on case-sensitive file systems
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141022135552.GC18857@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5447B69B.9020405@redhat.com>
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On Oct 22 07:52, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/22/2014 01:01 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>
> >
> > mv XY xy does not work if XY is a directory (no effect, no message)
>
> Might be something I can fix (I already have cygwin-local patches to
> allow 'mv A.txt a.txt', so it is probably just incomplete if directories
> aren't working).
>
> >
> > If I switch Windows to case-sensitivity, there is no .EXE magic (only
> > .exe magic).
> > So e.g. PING: command not found, while PING.EXE works.
>
> I know the .exe magic I added in coreutils tries to be case insensitive,
> but I don't know if cygwin1.dll does the same; in the case of exec'ing a
> program, that's the cygwin1.dll choosing whether to try all possible cases.
Cygwin only recognizes lowercase .exe and .dll in casesensitive mode.
Corinna
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-22 7:01 Thomas Wolff
2014-10-22 13:52 ` Eric Blake
2014-10-22 13:55 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2014-10-22 14:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-10-23 12:42 ` Thomas Wolff
2014-10-23 15:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-10-23 17:21 ` Thomas Wolff
2014-10-23 22:05 ` Andrey Repin
2014-10-24 9:55 ` Corinna Vinschen
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