This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: rsnapshot running with unix hosts
On Sep 8 15:06, James Chase wrote:
>
> >You *did* read
> >http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive
> >did you? Especially the part concerning the registry.
>
> Yes, I saw that but that's not an option for me at the moment. I
Why? Windows still works as usual. Only applications explicitely
asking for case-sensitivity, like Cygwin, will actually use it.
> suppose the heart of my question is: shouldn't mounting with posix=1
> enable the behavior I am trying to get? ie. separate files for
> different case file names or does that only work in conjunction with
> the registry tweak?
Case sensitivity requires OS support. So the answer is yes.
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader 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