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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 09:50:49 +0100
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Am 09.02.2015 um 05:21 schrieb Andrey Repin:
> Greetings, Thomas Wolff!
>
>> With a Windows case sensitive file system (and according mount flags
>> for /cygdrive), the PATH does not properly reflect casing of the actual
>> directories (e.g. C:\WINDOWS vs. C:\Windows, thanks MS...).
> NTFS is a case-insensitive, but case-preserving file system.
> I'll leave it up to you to google the implications.
Not quite, there is an optional feature (well-hidden) to switch to 
complete case sensitiveness.
It's also referred somewhere in the Cygwin user guide.

>
>> However, the shell finds programs anyway, like e.g. notepad.
>> The exec*p system calls, on the other hand, do not find a program in this
>> case as demonstrated by the attached test program.
>> This is in contrast to the Linux (and POSIX?) manual page which claims
>> „The execlp(), execvp(), and execvpe() functions duplicate the actions
>> of the shell in searching for an executable file …“
>
> --
> WBR,
> Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 09.02.2015, <07:20>
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...


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