X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 21:19:17 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: rsnapshot running with unix hosts Message-ID: <20100908191917.GU16534@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4C87D5A1.7020103@mandala-designs.com> <20100908185625.GT16534@calimero.vinschen.de> <4C87DEC7.5000305@mandala-designs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C87DEC7.5000305@mandala-designs.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sep 8 15:06, James Chase wrote: > > >You *did* read > >http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive > >did you? Especially the part concerning the registry. > > Yes, I saw that but that's not an option for me at the moment. I Why? Windows still works as usual. Only applications explicitely asking for case-sensitivity, like Cygwin, will actually use it. > suppose the heart of my question is: shouldn't mounting with posix=1 > enable the behavior I am trying to get? ie. separate files for > different case file names or does that only work in conjunction with > the registry tweak? Case sensitivity requires OS support. So the answer is yes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple