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From:	ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To:	Shankar Unni <shankarunni AT netscape DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: tcsh can't find executables in Path with "wrong" case
Date:	Wed, 14 Sep 2005 02:39:26 +0000
Message-Id:	<091420050239.16069.43278D5E0005121300003EC522007613940A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net>

> It's clearly something to do with the path hashing, as unhashing fixes 
> this problem (typing "unhash" at the command prompt).  And "bash" 
> doesn't seem to have this problem (I guess it doesn't hash things).

Just to avoid the spread of misinformation, bash also does hashing,
but it doesn't try to do case insensitive hashing.  tcsh really is
doing something different under the hood than bash.

--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer



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