X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :references:to; q=dns; s=default; b=yTUpiR/uz6cRxHZiyWRn0wf82g9w hlAisYh11qpClTVbek/H90neizuURDJN2RrfC8aMGZF9mRX5p65+mA3jM2iJMyRL oJVXzu2pZTbZgs3hxN2aB7A1JVogYpmQxvND5t6emLE4KfKQdNRTPVcU98atwp/g svkARZya3n6BV4Q= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :references:to; s=default; bh=E7tC7T78yU0aEeO6Ich6YR7w8zE=; b=YW 1pObdTFtMKJZH3jZLEMM3m57v2IBYby/sCzQYBCzgUa/GDPeYaPBD7iQIluxsO0G QevN12fwfPb90510ZCceQuqEQ0QXXCZQ21ghCPLcZBsztpSUGjK4lft9Sqiupt5Z i7cWfyG/CDXY+jKDUIsWzAn7oIc1UgB9oSav6Z678= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Delivered-To: corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Greetings, downloads, Downloads, honor X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: pv33p04im-asmtp002.me.com X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2016-01-11_03:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 suspectscore=1 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1510270003 definitions=main-1601110074 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.2 $3112$) Subject: Re: Question about incorrect System path from cygpath with case-sensitivity enabled From: Bryan Henry In-reply-to: <20160107201938.GG20447@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:54:30 -0500 Cc: corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-id: References: <1710491599 DOT 20160102183319 AT yandex DOT ru> <20160107201938 DOT GG20447 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id u0B3tKKB029415 Hi Corinna, Sorry for the delay getting back to you. I tested out the cygpath binary from the latest snapshot and confirmed that it fixes my issue. Thank for you making the change! [~/Downloads/cygwin-inst-20160109]$ cygpath -W -u /C/Windows [~/Downloads/cygwin-inst-20160109]$ cygpath-old -W -u /C/WINDOWS - Bryan > On Jan 7, 2016, at 3:19:38 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 2 18:33, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Bryan Henry! >> >>> I enabled (some time ago, not recently) case sensitivity on my Windows 8.1 >>> system by setting the registry key mentioned in the FAQ here: >>> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive >> >>> Today, I updated Cygwin and noticed a message about a failed postinstall >>> script at the end. Here's the excerpt from setup.log.full showing >>> /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh exiting early: >> >>> 2016/01/01 15:45:32 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile >>> "/etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh" >>> Directory /C/WINDOWS/System32/drivers/etc does not exist; exiting >>> If directory name is garbage you need to update your cygwin package >>> 2016/01/01 15:45:32 abnormal exit: exit code=1 >> >>> Since this was an existing installation, that postinstall script failing >>> isn't a big deal since the symlinks that it would normally create already >>> exist, but I wanted to dig into why it's failing in the first place in case >>> it is a symptom of something bigger. Taking a look at that script and trying >>> "/usr/bin/cygpath -S -u" for myself, I see now why it failed: >> >>> [~]$ cygpath -S -u >>> /C/WINDOWS/System32 >>> [~]$ file `cygpath -S -u` >>> /C/WINDOWS/System32: cannot open `/C/WINDOWS/System32' (No such file or directory) >>> [~]$ file /C/Windows/System32 >>> /C/Windows/System32: directory >> >>> I get similar results from "cygpath -W". It seems that cygpath has not >>> picked up on the fact that the directory is really "Windows" and not >>> "WINDOWS", >> >> cygpath uses system calls to return the directories you're asking for. > > ...and those system calls return information which does not honor > case-sensitivity, unfortunately. > >> If a system call return wrong case, cygpath can't do anything to amend it. > > It can and it will, at least if the path is a local path. I just > applied a patch to cygpath to call another OS function to correct the > case of the path returned by GetSystemDirectory and friends. > >> You have to fix your system first, then it will just work. > > This is nonsense. It's not the user's fault that the OS returns paths > without honoring the case. Cygwin tries to support case-sensitivity > (https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive) > and so it makes a lot of sense if cygpath tries to return system paths > using the correct case. > > I just uploaded new developer snapshots to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > Please give cygpath from those snapshots a try. > > > Thanks, > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple