Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:54:48 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: "'cygwin@sources.redhat.com'" Subject: Re: Case-insensitive globbing (was RE: Cygnus question) Message-ID: <20001103155447.H17861@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: "'cygwin@sources.redhat.com'" References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: ; from btown@ceddec.com on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:55:35AM -0500 On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:55:35AM -0500, Town, Brad wrote: >> There are no facilities in cygwin for case insensitive >> globbing currently >> and I have no plans or desires to add this. If someone is interested >> (hah) in providing a patch, I'll gladly consider it. > >"Hah", you say? That's like a triple-dog dare! > >Attached is a patch to glob.c to allow case-insensitive globbing when a >program is run from a Windows shell. It's nothing special -- one extra >#include and a couple tolowers. Thanks for the patch but this really needs to be under the control of a CYGWIN setting. We already have CYGWIN=glob. Maybe something like CYGWIN=glob:ignorecase would be appropriate. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com