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From: "Sergey Okhapkin" <sos AT sokhapkin DOT dyndns DOT org>
To: "'Gerald S. Williams'" <gsw AT agere DOT com>, <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: True case-sensitive filenames
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:18:22 -0500
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You can find my patch against old cygwin releases to support
case-sensitive filenames on www.lexa.ru/sos. The patch affects a lot of
places in cygwin sources but not fhandler_base::open only. The patch
supports case-sensitive file open/create/delete, but I know no way for
case-sensitive rename on windows. That was the main reason to not
include the patch into cygwin source.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-developers-owner AT cygwin DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-developers-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of
> Gerald S. Williams
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 10:10 AM
> To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: True case-sensitive filenames
>
>
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 05:35:57PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > > IIRC, there is a CYGWIN variable option for this already.
> >
> > No, there isn't.  Sergey had a patch relative to b18 or b19
> once but
> > it never made it into the Cygwin source.
>
> This is encouraging. So I guess there is interest in adding a
> flag like that. If so, I'll look into it some more.
>
> If the fhandler_disk_file class used for all disk file
> accesses, the change could be limited to just
> fhandler_disk_file::open(). It may make sense to extend
> fhandler_base with a way to support case-sensitive opens and
> use that instead, though.
>
> Does anyone know of any alternative file access mechanisms
> that might cause problems? SETUP might be an issue (it's
> compiled with mingw, right?), but we can cross that bridge later.
>
> -Jerry
>