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Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 18:13:44 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: check_case:adjust still an option?
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On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 02:18:44PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 04:33:01PM -0500, "Pierre A. Humblet" wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 12:32:21PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> > > /usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc-1.3/html/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html says:
> > > 
> > >    check_case:level - Controls the behaviour of Cygwin when a user
> > > tries to open or create a file using a case different from the case of
> > > the path as asved on the disk. level is one of relaxed, adjust and
> > > strict.
> > >    ...
> > >    adjust behaves mostly invisible. The POSIX input path is internally
> > > adjusted in case, so that the resulting DOS path uses the correct case
> > > throughout. You can see the result when changing the directory using a
> > > wrong case and calling /bin/pwd afterwards.
> > > 
> > > but I'm not seeing any difference between adjust and relaxed; is adjust
> > > still a valid option?
> > 
> > Sure, but not as visibly as documented above. For example under sh
> > $: cd c:/HoME/PiErRe
> > $: /bin/pwd
> > /c/HoME/Pierre
> > 
> > I has a look at the code and it is the Windows path that is adjusted,
> > not the Posix path. I think it was always like that.
> > In the case of chdir, the change in the Posix path was a result of former
> > transformations of the Windows path back to Posix form. Those can cause
> > trouble when several Posix paths point to the same Windows path (the mapping
> > Posix -- Windows is not bijective). In particular the final text/binary mode
> > need not be as expected, and this caused complaints.  
> 
> So you can expect it to "work" only outside of any mount point?

It always "works" but it's hard to observe. I don't really care 
about it and never tried to really make sense of it.

> It doesn't seem to do this for me (using 20050101 snapshot):
>
> $ CYGWIN="$CYGWIN check_case:adjust " bash
> $ echo $CYGWIN
> tty ntsec title server check_case:adjust
> $ cd c:/SeTuP/CyGwIn
> $ /bin/pwd
> /cygdrive/c/SeTuP/CyGwIn
> $ ls -d c:/?e?u?/?y?w?n
> c:/setup/cygwin

That's because you use bash. There are lots of Cygwin patches
in bash to transform paths (again, I never tried to understand
why) , so it's likely that the Cygwin chdir does not even see
what you give to bash, e.g.

/c/home/PiERRe: strace bash -c 'cd c:/hOmE/PiErRe' | fgrep chdir 
  351  524054 [main] bash 542197 chdir: dir '/c/hOmE/PiErRe'      <== NO MORE c:
  270  528790 [main] bash 542197 chdir: 0 = chdir() cygheap->cwd.posix '/c/hOmE/PiErRe' native 'c:\hOmE\Pierre'

But as you see toward the end, the native path was indeed fixed!
Because chdir gets a Posix path from bash, it's happy and it does not 
use the Windows path to get a Posix path (although it used to, which broke
various more important things).

Pierre


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