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On Oct 23 14:42, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 22.10.2014 16:00, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >On Oct 22 09:01, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >>I'm facing a number of issues with case-sensitivity which I've collected: > >> > >>There is a documented limitation on case-sensitivity using drive letter > >>paths, > >>also mentioned in https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2013-08/msg00090.html > >>(last item). I vaguely remember seeing a reason for this limitation in some > >>mail but can't find it again. I think it would be good to remove this > >>limitation because it breaks user expectations when working on > >>case-sensitive drives. > >The user expectation when using DOS paths is caseinsensitivity in the > >first place. But, as usual, there's no way to do this right, since > >somebody will have another POV. My stance is, don't use DOS paths when > >using Cygwin. At leats don't use DOS paths if you have any expectations > >about special POSIX path handling on Cygwin. > I use an application that uses Windows or mixed paths, I cannot influence > it. So while I understand your POV, it would still be helpful to have path > interpretation fully-featured. (If you point me to a place in winsup, I > might even try to do something myself.) I'm not going to apply a patch to do that. DOS paths get no special treatment, they are always handled with DOS/Windows defaults. > >>According to documentation, the posix mount flag is enforced to be the same > >>for all mounts below /cygdrive; is there a strong reason? > >Yes. The flags are shared between all cygdrive paths. If you need > >something else, don;'t use the cygdrive path, but another, manually > >added mount point. Note that this: > > > > none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 > > D: /cygdrive/d ntfs binary,nouser,posix=1,noumount 0 0 > > > >does NOT work. The manual paths must not overlap with the cygdrive > >paths. > I know and I did use a different path (maybe too similar to get > recognized...). But it does not seem to work properly: > I have now this in /etc/fstab: > C: /mnt/c ntfs binary,nouser,posix=1,noumount 0 0 > T: /mnt/t smbfs binary,user,posix=1,noumount,auto 0 0 Drop the noumount and it will work. noumount is an unknown mount flag and, FWIW, not documented in https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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