Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <067c01c2dc8a$b7174bb0$c67486d9@webdev> From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , "John Williams" References: Subject: Re: file name case sensitivity Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 04:59:44 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 > I'm building a version of uClinux under Cygwin, and for some reason > there are a few places where files exist _in the same directory_ having > identical names but differences in capitalisation. > > For example, /include/linux/netfilter/ipv4/ contains files called > ipt_dscp.h and ipt_DSCP.h . There are about 10 examples of this within > the uClinux source distribution. > > The file system in question is a Samba mount from a Solaris machine, and > I'm running Cygwin 1.3.20 under WinXP. > > Is there a way to enable case sensitivity in filenames under Cygwin? At > the moment things are not looking too good because Cygwin views these > names as equivalent, meaning that which ever one is copied in "last" > overwrites the one before. No. You can use the check_case option in the CYGWIN environment variable, but that'll only get you half way to what you want. Take a look at () to see how it works and how to use it. Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/