Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <36FFF197.6CACF45A@cityweb.de> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:33:11 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" CC: Chris Faylor , David Dagon , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: B20: mv deletes files on error (NT) References: <36FD516F.45299E3E@mindspring.com> <19990329005659.A2473@cygnus.com> <3.0.5.32.19990329114507.00a07bd0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > If that's true, how does one rename a file based on case sensitivity only? > On b19 (which as all I have at this location), mv can do this without > complaint or problem... > [...] > Seems a shame if this functionality has been lost... It's not a shame, it's a feature :) The older cygwin snapshots has generated i-node numbers by hashing over the filename, which has the advantage, that `mv' works for the mentioned situation by accident. But the disadvantage of this older implementation is simply, that it wasn't able to realize, that two directory entries are the same file. This isn't important on FAT, but NTFS allows real hard links. Regards, Corinna -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com