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Re: New Setup for Cygwin 1.7 on cygwin.com
On Aug 15 05:58, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Corinna Vinschen on 8/15/2008 5:41 AM:
> > So, here's the question:
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> > Shall the script make the cygdrive prefix a posix=0 (aka case-insensitve)
> > mount by default?
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> Sounds good to me. Case sensitivity is only reliable inside an
> environment that is expecting it (ie. cygwin files deserve it, but we
> can't expect the rest of windows to be ready for it).
Ok, I uploaded a new base-cygwin package which skips managed mounts
and sets the cygdrive prefix to posix=0 by default. Same for the
Cygwin DLL.
Corinna
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