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Date:	Fri, 16 May 2003 13:47:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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cc:	"Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Renaming YELLER'S directories to something less aloud (Was:
	case sensitivity and filenames)
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On Fri, 16 May 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> If you fix the first problem (i.e., setting "check_case:strict"), mv will
> complain on attempting to move something into a directory if the case is
> not exact, e.g., "mv AAA aaa" will fail with
>
> mv: cannot create directory `aaa': Filename exists with different caseIllegal byte sequenceValue too large for defined data type
>
> (so ok, there's a bug in mv's error printing code :-D)

Well, actually, FYI, the bug was in winsup/cygwin/errno.cc (missing
commas), and it seems to be fixed in CVS.
	Igor
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