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Re: Problems on case-sensitive file systems

From: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:52:27 -0600
Subject: Re: Problems on case-sensitive file systems
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On 10/22/2014 01:01 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote:

> 
> mv XY xy does not work if XY is a directory (no effect, no message)

Might be something I can fix (I already have cygwin-local patches to
allow 'mv A.txt a.txt', so it is probably just incomplete if directories
aren't working).

> 
> If I switch Windows to case-sensitivity, there is no .EXE magic (only
> .exe magic).
> So e.g. PING: command not found, while PING.EXE works.

I know the .exe magic I added in coreutils tries to be case insensitive,
but I don't know if cygwin1.dll does the same; in the case of exec'ing a
program, that's the cygwin1.dll choosing whether to try all possible cases.

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