This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Problems on case-sensitive file systems


On Oct 22 07:52, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/22/2014 01:01 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> 
> > 
> > mv XY xy does not work if XY is a directory (no effect, no message)
> 
> Might be something I can fix (I already have cygwin-local patches to
> allow 'mv A.txt a.txt', so it is probably just incomplete if directories
> aren't working).
> 
> > 
> > If I switch Windows to case-sensitivity, there is no .EXE magic (only
> > .exe magic).
> > So e.g. PING: command not found, while PING.EXE works.
> 
> I know the .exe magic I added in coreutils tries to be case insensitive,
> but I don't know if cygwin1.dll does the same; in the case of exec'ing a
> program, that's the cygwin1.dll choosing whether to try all possible cases.

Cygwin only recognizes lowercase .exe and .dll in casesensitive mode.


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

Attachment: pgpNFYlm4S_1x.pgp
Description: PGP signature


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]