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On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:20:57PM -0500, Gerald S. Williams wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I don't know if the requirements for getting case sensitivity working >>on NT could be abstractable into something that would allow for future >>expansion into, oh, I don't know, nfs or something but I think it is >>worthwhile to consider not just adding a bunch of "ifs" to the code but >>going for something that could be "plugged in" somehow. > >I'm not sure exactly how far you're talking about going. It sounds >like you're suggesting something that I would have thought goes against >the grain of what Cygwin generally does. Huh? Weren't we talking about using POSIX_SEMANTICS to provide case sensitivity? I wasn't straying from that. >If you want a truly generic approach for Win95-like >clients, you may have to do something similar. I wasn't talking about Windows 95 clients. I was talking about not peppering the code with: if (wincap.case_sensitive_available) do_some_stuff (); else do_some_other_stuff (); But instead, trying to come up with a cleaner way of handling the operations. I don't have any specific recommendations other than to think about this not from a "how do I add case sensitivity to the cygwin DLL" but instead think about it as "how do I modify the cygwin DLL to make this kind of thing easier so that we can add other nifty features as well". cgf
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