delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: cygwin/2016/10/20/05:33:31

X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
:list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to
:references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; q=dns; s=
default; b=pIjeGnwWKH1gxxBOix98Hf5BwXN4zV0P7InmP2dhOFihAm2UTPOPc
T2smEQr6Vi4p2TiD1KDNIpf+gTSQvp+YXZe+KF2Arr5quJzSAKViJWCsfZ8/bC+R
Mu6MgRoFZDEG0sLLGgRCQVD6n+rTNYaICEla9H7wJ+TqoLcjIUkDI0=
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
:list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to
:references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=default;
bh=fwIAsk77sH6o3SIV8PKaaBQ8glY=; b=d7r2mimqVb/zJ1W74OYWAThtyw4r
pnEi+9wnBgCyWipM/mQPiw5BUwb3Jn0yf7Y4AGlDlrIM9gfhL8OGDGWeTIHHcYRL
pPxEAl3TnScZF+T1kaM66XmXy2h20eAHy1n1gJ6E/HDxQsi2fdRtS2hf7XY4iIMf
AA0V+4lyvkBfZlo=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none
X-Virus-Found: No
X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-101.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GOOD_FROM_CORINNA_CYGWIN,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1506, H*i:sk:581c601, H*f:sk:581c601, deliberate
X-HELO: drew.franken.de
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 11:32:58 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Detecting case sensitivity
Message-ID: <20161020093258.GJ4801@calimero.vinschen.de>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <7d6249c4-0904-b80f-39ed-69ddfbb675f4 AT cornell DOT edu> <20161019111049 DOT GA4801 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <581c601a-b2cd-b6e6-7106-6a98d95eb117 AT cornell DOT edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <581c601a-b2cd-b6e6-7106-6a98d95eb117@cornell.edu>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17)

--+QwZB9vYiNIzNXIj
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Oct 19 17:16, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 10/19/2016 7:10 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Sep 20 18:03, Ken Brown wrote:
> > > I found an old discussion
> > > (https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00594.html) about the
> > > possibility of adding a _PC_CASE_INSENSITIVE flag to pathconf.  Has a=
nyone
> > > thought further about this?  I would find this useful for emacs[*].
> > >=20
> > > I've taken a quick look at the pathconf code, and it looks like it wo=
uldn't
> > > be difficult to add this.  I could try to provide a patch if the powe=
rs that
> > > be would be receptive.
> >=20
> > /me marks herself as being receptive
>=20
> Should the getconf utility be patched to support the new
> _PC_CASE_INSENSITIVE flag?  I'm asking because getconf doesn't currently
> support the Cygwin-only flags _PC_POSIX_PERMISSIONS and _PC_POSIX_SECURIT=
Y.
> This seems to contradict the documentation at
> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/getconf.html:
>=20
> "...getconf serves as a wrapper for the pathconf function, supporting the
> symbolic constants defined in the unistd.h header, without the _PC_ prefi=
x."
>=20
> If the omission of _PC_POSIX_PERMISSIONS and _PC_POSIX_SECURITY was just =
an
> oversight, I can add support for them along with my patch.

I don't know if that was just an oversight or deliberate (Yaakov?).
It wouldn't hurt to add all of them, I think.


Thanks,
Corinna

--=20
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

--+QwZB9vYiNIzNXIj
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2
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=VkVp
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--+QwZB9vYiNIzNXIj--

- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019