On Sep 20 20:33, Ken Brown wrote:
I've set up my Cygwin installation to be case sensitive, following the instructions at
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive
But it doesn't seem to be working as I expect. For example:
$ mkdir a
$ mkdir A
$ ls -al [aA]
a:
total 100
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 kbrown None 0 2016-09-20 20:18 ./
drwxrwxrwt+ 1 kbrown-admin None 0 2016-09-20 20:19 ../
A:
total 100
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 kbrown None 0 2016-09-20 20:19 ./
drwxrwxrwt+ 1 kbrown-admin None 0 2016-09-20 20:19 ../
$ mv a A
mv: cannot move 'a' to a subdirectory of itself, 'A/a'
Why does mv think that A and a are the same directory?
Here's another example, where mv should simply do a rename, but it doesn't:
$ rmdir A
$ mv a A
$ ls -al a
total 100
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 kbrown None 0 2016-09-20 20:18 ./
drwxrwxrwt+ 1 kbrown-admin None 0 2016-09-20 20:30 ../
$ ls -al A
ls: cannot access 'A': No such file or directory
cygcheck output is attached.
Looks like a *very* old misbehaviour. I applied a patch to Cygwin
to fix this. I'll create a snapshot later today, please test.