From: ggp AT informix DOT com (Guy Gascoigne - Piggford) Subject: Re: case sensitive directory names 4 Dec 1997 19:21:43 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971204120703.00c375b0.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.pdx.informix.com> References: <19971204141828 DOT 3649 DOT qmail AT hotmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Earnie Boyd" Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At 06:18 AM 12/4/97 PST, you wrote: >What problems is this nature causing? From your examples I don't see a >real problem as the directory names should be found in either case. If >it is something you really want you could modify the result from the pwd >command to translate to lowercase. I can give you one poblem that I've noticed. We use Clearcase for source control, many clearcase commands require knowledge about the Current Working Directory, now take the following scenario. I have a directory: s:\source\Stuff\Project1 if, in bash, I cd //s/source/stuff/project1, it works and appears to set the current directory correctly, however it actually sets the dir to be what was typed case and all), future pwd calls return the lowercase name and not the real mixed case name, this causes Clearcase all kinds of problems. Now I realise that part of the problem here is that Clearcase's handling of a case insensitive filesystem is somewhat lacking, but the behaviour of the Cygwin cd command is also somewhat lacking. Having not looked at it, I can't say exactly where the problem lies, but it would be nice to fix it one day. Guy - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".