Re: Filenames with Win32 special characters (or: Interix filename compatibility)

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mar 11 12:31, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:55:45AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Mar 11 11:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> Case sensitivity is still not possible with this approach.  You
> >> can get generic case sensitivity in Cygwin with a bit of work.  The 
> >> magic flag is OBJ_CASE_INSENSITIVE in the object attributes.  However,
> >> this would not work for fork/exec.
> >
> >Oh, and, beginning with Windows XP, you would have to enable case
> >sensitivity in the kernel. Set the DWORD
> >
> >HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\kernel\obcaseinsensitivity
> >
> >to 0x0 and reboot.  No worries, this doesn't affect Win32 calls.
> 
> I thought this had come up before and that it affected files in
> Explorer, i.e., you delete file "A" and file "a" gets deleted too or
> something like that.

If you created two files which only differ by case, then, yes, Explorer
will behave somewhat excentric.  What I meant above is, you can still
just run any Win32 application if you did the above change in the
registry.  It's not like this breaks the whole system in some way.

> FWIW, I'm all for getting rid of managed mounts if we can create all of
> the same stuff transparently.

Given the uppercase/lowercase problem, it doesn't sound too much that
we can get rid of managed mounts.  We could change them to use the
outlined method of using special unicode chars.


Corinna


P.S.: Didn't it occur to you as strange that this actually works on
      FAT?  I have to say that I didn't expect this.  For once, I was
      positively surprised.

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