Renaming issue, changing case only.

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Mar 4 13:32:00 GMT 2009


On Mar  4 07:57, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > Cygwin 1.7 itself has no problems to rename a file just 
> > case-wise, neither under casesensitive mount points nor under 
> > caseinsensitive mount points.  This looks like a problem in svn.
> 
> 
> But as this works on other platforms it appears to be a cygwin platform only bug
> in svn. If here is not the best place, where should this be addressed?

No, it's fine.  I was just addressing the problem itself to point out
where it probably occurs.  I assume that it works fine when using
casesensitive mount points under 1.7.  I assume further that the problem
is the same as old versions of coreutils had when only trying to change
the case of a name on a caseinsensitive filesystem, basically along
these lines.

  stat (old_path, &ost)
  if (stat (new_path, &nst) == 0)
    /* Uh oh, target exists */
    if (ost.st_ino == nst.st_ino && ost.st_dev == nst.st_dev)
      /* Even worse, it's the same file */


Corinna

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