From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 83957 invoked by alias); 20 Sep 2016 22:02:50 -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 83313 invoked by uid 89); 20 Sep 2016 22:02:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=sensitivity, UD:www.cygwin.com, wwwcygwincom, powers X-HELO: limerock04.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock04.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.244) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 22:02:39 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id u8KM2bjF022256 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 18:02:37 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.9] (mta-68-175-148-36.twcny.rr.com [68.175.148.36] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id u8KM2ZNd018199 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 18:02:36 -0400 To: cygwin From: Ken Brown Subject: Detecting case sensitivity Message-ID: <7d6249c4-0904-b80f-39ed-69ddfbb675f4@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:54:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=XXXXX X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00263.txt.bz2 I found an old discussion (https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00594.html) about the possibility of adding a _PC_CASE_INSENSITIVE flag to pathconf. Has anyone thought further about this? I would find this useful for emacs[*]. I've taken a quick look at the pathconf code, and it looks like it wouldn't be difficult to add this. I could try to provide a patch if the powers that be would be receptive. Ken [*] See http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22300 http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24441 -- 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