Control auto-uppercasing of environment variables

2005-01-14 Thread Ernie Coskrey
Cygwin automatically converts all Windows environment variable names to uppercase. The attached patch allows users to control this behavior by specifying an option in the CYGWIN environment variable: (no)uppercase_env. The default for this option will be "SET", so that Cygwin's default behavio

Re: Control auto-uppercasing of environment variables

2005-01-14 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Ernie Coskrey wrote: > Cygwin automatically converts all Windows environment variable names to > uppercase. The attached patch allows users to control this behavior by > specifying an option in the CYGWIN environment variable: > (no)uppercase_env. The default for this option

RE: Control auto-uppercasing of environment variables

2005-01-14 Thread Ernie Coskrey
Well, I suppose there are some similarities between what the uppercase_env and check_case options are used for, but check_case is specifically targeted at handling case sensitivity with regard to filenames, not environment variables. The subvalues of check_case are specified as "levels" (relaxe