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From: "Schaible, Jorg" <Joerg DOT Schaible AT gft DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Updated: gdb-20010428-2
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:18:52 +0100
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Hi Chris,

>>Windows is really a crap.
>
>Oh yes.  That's right.  I think I even resisted this patch, 
>mainly because
>I could not believe that Windows was really that stupid.
>
>I have a hard time with the idea that I have to add 
>Windows-specific code
>to gdb at this point.  I had an ITS (In The Shower) experience 
>today and
>realized that, of course, I could use the FindFirstFile technique to
>get the right filename and your email confirms that.
>
>This is a really hard change to make, though.  It will be like 
>typing in
>molasses getting this patch into gdb.  It just feels so wrong.

It does. Couldn't you just ignore the settings for check_case loading the
DLL's in GDB? It seems, that the problems only arises when simulating
Windows internal file operations. Windows does not take care of the case
anyway, so why should Cygwin? The check_case is "just" for ported Unix apps
that do not know of this Windows internal behaviour. They may only use the
functionality (loading a depending DLL) as service out-of-the-box, GDB is
therefore just an exception.

Regards,
Jorg

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