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Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:42:28 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygserver service won't start
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On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 02:22:37PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Any time I hear about who great this option is, it seems as though
>>people raise the issue of finding multiple files with the same name in
>>a tar file.  If this really represents the majority of usefulness for
>>this feature then I think something like a tar-lint or adding an option
>>to tar itself might be a better plan than burdening the cygwin DLL with
>
>Or CVS, or rsync, or scp, or a whole bunch of other interactions with
>case-sensitive operating systems.

I said "majority of usefulness" because it appears that the majority of
the time that people mention this it is in relation to tar.  But, I
certainly expected to be instructed on the fact that there are other
programs which could be impacted.

Cygwin lived without this feature for a number of years with only
infrequent complaints.  I just don't think the benefit outweighs the
impact.

cgf

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