Re: case sensitivity bug?

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

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.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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