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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.19
- From: Nick Lowe <nick dot lowe at gmail dot com>
- To: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:44:52 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.19
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> Nick, was it you, who wrote this article?
> http://www.nicklowe.org/2012/02/understanding-case-sensitivity-in-windows-obcaseinsensitive-file_case_sensitive_search/
> Thanks for it, if so.
> But the more frustrating it makes your post, as article clearly states, that
I did, yes. I was trying to get my head around it and the design a
year or so ago and decided to document it as I could find nothing
substantive available on the Web.
At the time, I noticed that Corinna special cased Windows 2000 to keep
reading obcaseinsensitive in the patch that was otherwise committed to
test for the actual state of case sensitivity instead:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2012-q1/msg00115.html
It is a mess and pretty frustrating! You have to be very careful about
the assumptions that you make in your code.
Regards,
Nick
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