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Re: Filenames with Win32 special characters (or: Interix filename compatibility)
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:37:29AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>What if Cygwin checks itself for the obcaseinsensitivity registry key
>and takes it into account? If the user *made* the choice, we could be
>case sensitive by default and only case insensitive on mount points
>with the "nocase" (or whatever) option. Otherwise, if the registry
>key isn't set, all operations are case insensitive as usual. As for
>the managed mounts, we could drop them entirely
>
>Good? Bad? Ugly?
That's actually what I thought you were proposing. Why should Cygwin
assume case sensitivity if the underlying OS doesn't support it?
cgf