On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:42:02PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Corinna Vinschen (03-02-25 12:20 +0100) > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:09:46AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > >> * Christopher Faylor (03-02-25 06:06 +0100) > >>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 02:48:05PM +1000, John Williams wrote: > >>>> Is there a way to enable case sensitivity in filenames under Cygwin? > >>> > >>> No there isn't. Sorry. > >> > >> What about "SET CYGWIN=check_case:strict"? > > > > It's a hack. > > I knew you were a hacker... ;-) . But is it "working" reliably? And if > not - why is it mentioned in the Cygwin documentation about the CYGWIN > environment variable?
- It's not changing the case insensitivity of the underlying FS. - Therefore it only fakes case insensitivity in the API so it's reliability is restricted. - It's mentioned because it exists. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
