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Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2025 18:50:58 -0700 (PDT)
To: Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org>
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Subject: Re: RFE: getconf(1)/|pathconf()| support for |_PC_CASE_SENSITIVE| ...
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On Sun, 8 Jun 2025, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:

> I know... but the request is for portable applications and scripts,
> which either use |pathconf(...,_PC_CASE_SENSITIVE)| or /bin/getconf to
> probe this information. Both APIs are not supported by Cygwin yet...

Isn't it?

https://github.com/cygwin/cygwin/blob/55e5d9bf0f76f2f270ee8a3cef1da0bc646f72bf/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/base.cc#L1944-L1945

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2016q4/008626.html

Comment from emacs source:
     Use pathconf with _PC_CASE_INSENSITIVE or _PC_CASE_SENSITIVE if
     those flags are available.  As of this writing (2019-09-15),
     Cygwin is the only platform known to support the former (starting
     with Cygwin-2.6.1), and macOS is the only platform known to
     support the latter.  */

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