From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 116433 invoked by alias); 28 Feb 2019 03:12:31 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 116407 invoked by uid 89); 28 Feb 2019 03:12:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2,KAM_NUMSUBJECT autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=adhere, H*F:U*cygwin X-HELO: Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (HELO Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 03:12:29 +0000 Received: from [192.168.3.12] (Athenae [192.168.3.12]) by Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id x1S3CO5Z038715; Wed, 27 Feb 2019 19:12:27 -0800 Message-ID: <5C775155.6060100@tlinx.org> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:39:00 -0000 From: L A Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: Jerry Baker Subject: Re: Cygwin 3.0.1-1 Breaks ALL cygwin applications on Windows 7 x64 References: <06d6e35d-b645-61c2-089b-8256194168ef@yahoo.com> <35062835-c3cd-799e-d13a-16f954db2a19@yahoo.com> <02f492d9-b334-1dab-aedb-17a747ede36b@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <6b67157a-a9c8-1a72-8997-be9ea8a00a14@yahoo.com> <6e219349-6cd2-c632-09fd-b56779084438@yahoo.com> <99354c7d-ce38-0f77-e1f0-17b160b0465e@yahoo.com> <20190227205039.GF4133@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20190227205039.GF4133@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-02/txt/msg00495.txt.bz2 On 2/27/2019 12:50 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > The fix was this one: > https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=18c203fb6eb > Corinna > > ---- My question would be related to the comment with the fix: "made sure all user and group names are case-correct" Since windows seems to adhere to the rule: "Case preserving", but "case ignoring", what does it mean to make sure all user and group names are case-correct? >From what little I understand in the area, the case that is preserved is the 1st one used on a given machine. However if we are talking non-Windows LDAP/AD, who knows what is done. Sigh. -- 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