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On 10/19/2016 7:10 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep 20 18:03, Ken Brown wrote:
>> I found an old discussion
>> (https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00594.html) about the
>> possibility of adding a _PC_CASE_INSENSITIVE flag to pathconf.  Has anyone
>> thought further about this?  I would find this useful for emacs[*].
>>
>> I've taken a quick look at the pathconf code, and it looks like it wouldn't
>> be difficult to add this.  I could try to provide a patch if the powers that
>> be would be receptive.
>
> /me marks herself as being receptive

Should the getconf utility be patched to support the new 
_PC_CASE_INSENSITIVE flag?  I'm asking because getconf doesn't currently 
support the Cygwin-only flags _PC_POSIX_PERMISSIONS and 
_PC_POSIX_SECURITY.  This seems to contradict the documentation at 
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/getconf.html:

"...getconf serves as a wrapper for the pathconf function, supporting 
the symbolic constants defined in the unistd.h header, without the _PC_ 
prefix."

If the omission of _PC_POSIX_PERMISSIONS and _PC_POSIX_SECURITY was just 
an oversight, I can add support for them along with my patch.

Ken

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