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From: Morgan Read <mstuff AT read DOT org DOT nz>
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Brian Dessent wrote:
> Morgan Read wrote:
>=20
>>> Sorry but there are too many strcasecmp's sprinkled throughout cygwin's
>>> code to feel confident that it would work well at all.
>> Huh, you mean cygwin's been written not to take advantage of a case
>> sensitive file system even where it exists!?
>=20
> I don't think you understand how this works.  In order for an app to
I'm sure you're right:-)
...
> If you'd like to rewrite all of Cygwin to use the native API exclusively
And, I think that's rhetoric? :0)
But, thank you very much for the detailed and educating follow up - I
now know more.

Thanks again,
Morgan.
--=20
Morgan Read
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