Mail Archives: cygwin/1996/11/05/00:09:14
On WinNT, you can use FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS to CreateFile() to get
case-sensitive behavior.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andy Moreton [SMTP:ajm AT atml DOT co DOT uk]
>Sent: Monday, November 04, 1996 2:22 AM
>To: 'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'
>Subject: Re: getting Perl5 to compile under gnu-win32
>
>On Sunday, November 03 Stan Shebs wrote:
>
>>gmarzot AT baynetworks DOT com (Joe Marzot) writes:
>>
>>> hints/aux.sh
>>>
>>> could not be created. I am guessing this has something to do with NT as
>>> I could not create a file with this name from the NT command prompt.
>>
>>Yes, we ran into a similar problem with a GCC source file named aux.h.
>>It seems that "aux" is disallowed as a filename. We ended up renaming
>>the file to something else.
>>
>This is a feature of Windows - the DOS device names (CON, AUX, PRN, LPT, COM)
>are not allowed as part of a filename, whether you use an extension or not.
>
>The filesystem does not support case-sensitive filenames either. On NT the
>names are stored case-sensitive, but the filesystem APIs are case insensitive
>:-(
>
>HTH
>
> AndyM
>---
>Andy Moreton Advanced Telecommunications Modules
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