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On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 05:45:08PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: >>No idea, but I'm sufficiently off-put by those mangled names that I >>don't like it! > >Aha. Then please don't argue that there is any overhead. Your real >objection, the mangled names, is weakened if you tie it to unproven and >possibly false statements. Heh. Zing. As has been shown -- using the posix semantics file flag is not a new idea. We're not apt to accept a patch since we're slowly headed towards using nt-specific api for handling files on NT/2000/XP and they can deal with mixed case. And, of course using this flag is going to result in some extra overhead as well, since cygwin would have to recognize it and propgate it around for every function which manipulates files. Since I wouldn't have invented the use of the flag, I'd probably start complaining about that. :-) I would definitely complain about creating files that can't be deleted by normal windows utilities, as has also been mentioned. We already suffered a bout of that when we switched to using NtCreateFile a while ago and accidentally allowed the creation of "special" files like "nul" and "com1" on NTFS disks. It surely confused users. That would be ameliorated by making it a specific mount option but I'm sure we'd still get complaints. Oh, and maybe I missed this but, while I'm at it, someone should also mention that they don't like managed mode because it's easier to run into Windows file name length limit. That has been mentioned enough that I've asked to make it a FAQ. -- Christopher Faylor spammer? -> aaaspam@sourceware.org Cygwin Co-Project Leader aaaspam@duffek.com TimeSys, Inc. ------ Want more information? See the CrossGCC FAQ, http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ Want to unsubscribe? Send a note to crossgcc-unsubscribe@sources.redhat.com
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