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Re: Case sensitive filenames
- To: Curtis Galloway <curtis at pdi dot com>
- Subject: Re: Case sensitive filenames
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 16:45:07 +1100
- Cc: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>, nathan at alexandria dot lcs dot mit dot edu, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <19980120135538.4361.qmail@hotmail.com> <34C7DD8B.B71693B1@pdi.com>
On 22-Jan-1998, Curtis Galloway <curtis@pdi.com> wrote:
> This has gone around and around. My opinion is that gnuwin32 is broken if it
> imposes semantics on the filesystem that the filesystem doesn't support. I'm
> a UNIX programmer, and I think it's a pain.
>
> It's also pretty easy to fix. I posted a patch back in May of last year to do
> this; apparently no one like it enough to incorporate it into the official
> sources. I have included my original message below.
For what it's worth, I vote in favour of inclusion of this patch.
If it does cause compatibility problems with existing GNU software,
then please include it, but just leave the default value of
`glob_case_fold' as 0 (false) for all platforms.
`completion_case_fold' should remain as 1 (true), though.
--
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