RE: Cygwin and crosstool! (vmlinux.lds.asm problem with 2.6.12.5 case-insensitive build patch from crosstool)

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

----Original Message----
>From: Dan Kegel
>Sent: 26 August 2005 17:33

> Dave Korn wrote:
>>> Ah.  Deleting the files would work, too :-)
>> 
>>   "To a bofh with an rm-rf, every problem looks like a superfluous file"
>> :) 
> 
> That's me! :-)   I gotta admit, when I saw that episode of BOFH
> the first time back in the early 90's, I ROTFL.

  Wow, I didn't know that was a real episode, I thought I just made it up.
Guess it's a fairly easy idiom to impersonate.... :)

>> we're worried about, but I still reckon that a patch to provide
>> posix-flag mount points might be a useful kind of 'managed mount lite'
>> feature. 
> 
> Oh.  You're proposing a patch to cygwin to add
> a new mount option?  Sounds like a cool idea.

> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/1997-05/msg00404.html

> http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg19268.html

  Yeh, I came across those threads.  That one from '97 and one more recent
one are about all I could find on the subject.

> Corinna objects to it, though; she said on 22 Jul 2004 22:46:44 in
> a message in thread "Re: Slight problem with case sensitivity on managed
> mounts with C VS-1.1" archived at
>  http://www.newsarch.com/archive/mailinglist/cygwin/msg09026.html :

  I can't get that address to resolve!

 >The
>  problem in using FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS is this: Any other
>  >application which doesn't use that flag might get seriously confused
> >by having two files which only differ in case. 
> 
> But maybe she'd be ok with it as an extra mount flag.

  I hope so; that way it's strictly isolated from anyone who doesn't want it
in use.  Making it a property of a mountpoint (rather than e.g. a CYGWIN
environment variable option) should make it keep itself to self-contained
dir subtrees, rather than allowing chaotically-named files to scatter across
the whole fs.
 
> But before you do: what *is* the overhead of managed mode mounts?

  No idea, but I'm sufficiently off-put by those mangled names that I don't
like it!

    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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