Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 4 13:08, Linda Walsh wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Aug 3 19:42, Linda Walsh wrote: > >>Shaddy Baddah wrote: > >>>This is the output for L: drive, which is not a physical but logical > >>>volume formatted EXFAT. Hopefully it doesn't alter the > >>>characteristics/attributes. With a

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-04 Thread Linda Walsh
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 3 19:42, Linda Walsh wrote: Shaddy Baddah wrote: This is the output for L: drive, which is not a physical but logical volume formatted EXFAT. Hopefully it doesn't alter the characteristics/attributes. With a bit of extra effort, I could try with a physical device

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 3 19:42, Linda Walsh wrote: > Shaddy Baddah wrote: > > > >This is the output for L: drive, which is not a physical but logical > >volume formatted EXFAT. Hopefully it doesn't alter the > >characteristics/attributes. With a bit of extra effort, I could try with > >a physical device (format a

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Shaddy Baddah wrote: To be honest, my bug bear with NTFS has been the file/folder ownership. But I think noacl's is probably the best compromise for general NTFS ACL issues. You realize you can change the ownership of files in cygwin, no? chmod . -R . in your home directory, followed by chmo

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Shaddy Baddah wrote: This is the output for L: drive, which is not a physical but logical volume formatted EXFAT. Hopefully it doesn't alter the characteristics/attributes. With a bit of extra effort, I could try with a physical device (format a spare USB stick EXFAT through Windows): $ /usr/li

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-02 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 02 Aug 2013 20:29+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 2 19:05, Shaddy Baddah wrote: Hi, On 02 Aug 2013 18:31+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Correction, not only NTFS. Here's the source code comment: Sorry, yes I forgot that it was coded to let Windows make the decision. Unfortuna

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 2 19:05, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > Hi, > > On 02 Aug 2013 18:31+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Correction, not only NTFS. Here's the source code comment: > > Sorry, yes I forgot that it was coded to let Windows make the decision. > > >>Unfortunately, in providing EXFAT, Microsoft has not

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-02 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 02 Aug 2013 18:31+1000, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Correction, not only NTFS. Here's the source code comment: Sorry, yes I forgot that it was coded to let Windows make the decision. Unfortunately, in providing EXFAT, Microsoft has not seen fit to carry over the same handling in the kern

Re: Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 2 16:50, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > Hi, > > As per: > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive > > Cygwin act on filenames on NTFS in with case preservation/sensitivity. Correction, not only NTFS. Here's the source code comment: /* Case sensitivi

Case sensitive filenames for non-NTFS filesystems

2013-08-01 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, As per: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive Cygwin act on filenames on NTFS in with case preservation/sensitivity. As this was a feature configured in the Windows kernel, the pre-existing limitation whereby the same case sensitivity was not avail