X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <46D383AD.6000301@byu.net> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:08:45 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Youngman CC: cygwin@cygwin.com, bug-coreutils Subject: Re: cygwin coreutils-6.9-5 References: <46CB58A1.3040202@x-ray.at> <46CB5D57.5080401@byu.net> <20070822083015.GA13475@calimero.vinschen.de> <46CC3040.2000908@byu.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to James Youngman on 8/27/2007 4:31 PM: > If applications are supposed to be able to use _PC_CASE_INSENSITIVE to > figure out if rename("a","A") should be a no-op, then there is an > assumption that the kernel and the userspace have identical ideas > about case conversion (that is whether the source and destination file > names differ only by case). I'm not sure how that could happen. Paul Eggert already identified this as the first major hurdle to be resolved: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-08/msg00118.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG04Ot84KuGfSFAYARAgNaAJ4xaCUAkiM8LB+wF17gbO5a4hoNfwCeOc1U j0jgo95Mkfl9CGh5QgpAPHA= =JlZD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/