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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: case sensitivity bug?
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161019112735.GB4801@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43ca1dd7-3042-88b1-dbb7-59b02f13d331@cornell.edu>

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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.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-19 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-21  8:50 Ken Brown
2016-09-21 10:45 ` Andrey Repin
2016-09-21 16:59 ` Brian Inglis
2016-09-21 17:45   ` Ken Brown
2016-09-22 12:32     ` Brian Inglis
2016-10-19 11:29 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2016-10-19 15:09   ` Ken Brown

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