mwoehlke wrote: > (Speaking of case sensitivity, is it a Windows limitation that Cygwin > can't do this? I'm pretty sure it isn't an NTFS limitation, as Interix > has true case-sensitivity.)
As I understand it, the win32 API preserves case but is not case sensitive. The native API is both, so in theory an application that used only native calls could cope with both README and Readme, but no win32 app could. So, from the standpoint of Cygwin this is pretty useless as A) it would take significant code rewrites to use the native API everywhere (not to mention backcompat hell for 9x/ME) and B) it would lead to the situation (which we briefly got a taste of somewhere in a past 1.5.x release) where Cygwin was able to create files that could not be deleted by Explorer or any other regular Windows app. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
