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Re: sed seems to force UC filename on Mixed 8.3 filenames on FAT32
- From: Brian Inglis <Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 11:14:39 -0700
- Subject: Re: sed seems to force UC filename on Mixed 8.3 filenames on FAT32
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- Reply-to: Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca
On 2018-03-03 01:36, Fergus Daly wrote:
>>> Run stat on original and converted files.
>
> OK. I get this:
>
> ~> stat /j/PStart.xml
> File: /j/PStart.xml
> Size: 7233 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 65536 regular file
> Device: a6418e7fh/2789314175d Inode: 7206475022584976007 Links: 1
> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (197609/ fergusd) Gid: (197609/ fergusd)
> Access: 2018-03-03 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
> Modify: 2018-03-02 11:50:12.000000000 +0000
> Change: 2018-03-02 11:50:12.000000000 +0000
> Birth: 2018-03-02 09:26:44.060000000 +0000
>
> ~> dos2unix.exe /j/PStart.xml
> dos2unix: converting file /j/PStart.xml to Unix format...
>
> ~> stat /j/PSTART.XML
> File: /j/PSTART.XML
> Size: 6943 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 65536 regular file
> Device: a6418e7fh/2789314175d Inode: 7206475022584976007 Links: 1
> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (197609/ fergusd) Gid: (197609/ fergusd)
> Access: 2018-03-03 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
> Modify: 2018-03-03 08:27:16.000000000 +0000
> Change: 2018-03-03 08:27:16.000000000 +0000
> Birth: 2018-03-03 08:27:15.210000000 +0000
>
> Does that help at all?
>
> It's not so much the behaviour on FAT32, which I could put up with as
> a filesystem pehenomenon if it had always been the case: but it's just
> started in the past few days. Can't think what has been updated that
> would cause this change. Previously sed and dos2unix which I use
> constantly (and others) did NOT change the case of the filename.
Should only be possible if Std C rename was changed in newlib/Cygwin1.dll
updates or operation on FAT32 was changed by Windows updates.
Looks like VFAT entries are no longer being created for the long file name as it
has a short name.
Test what happens if you use a mixed long file name e.g. Mumblety-Peg.html?
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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