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Date:	Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:33:11 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>
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To:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
CC:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>, David Dagon <david DOT dagon AT mindspring DOT com>,
	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: B20: mv deletes files on error (NT)
References:	<36FD516F DOT 45299E3E AT mindspring DOT com>
	<19990329005659 DOT A2473 AT cygnus DOT com> <3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 19990329114507 DOT 00a07bd0 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com>

"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> 
> If that's true, how does one rename a file based on case sensitivity only?
> On b19 (which as all I have at this location), mv can do this without
> complaint or problem...
> [...]
> Seems a shame if this functionality has been lost...

It's not a shame, it's a feature :)

The older cygwin snapshots has generated i-node numbers by hashing over
the filename, which has the advantage, that `mv' works for the mentioned
situation by accident. But the disadvantage of this older implementation
is simply, that it wasn't able to realize, that two directory entries
are the same file. This isn't important on FAT, but NTFS allows real
hard links.

Regards,
Corinna

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