"Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Jul 31 11:21, Morgan Read wrote:
Hi Folks
Lots of refs to the case sensitivity nightmare in archives, but couldn't
find any to ntfs' obcaseinsensitive registry option
(HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\kernel\
dword:ObCaseInsensitive see here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817921)
So, does anyone know:
* If this provides case sensitivity to cygwin (as it seems to to
SFU/Interix)?
* If there's a way to query the system to see if it "thinks" it's
working?...
Only under a non-Win32 subsystem.
Umm.. CreateFile() is a win32 API command.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/aa363858.aspx
It supports a "FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS" attribute, which claims to allow
case sesitive files? Does that not do anything? I would have thought that
would give case sensitive access through the win32 API if ObCaseInsensitive
was set to 0.
I agree however, that for the most part the Win32 subsystem's API does not
really have much support for case-sensitive access.
It would make better sense to utilize the native NT API for case sensitive
access.
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