Unwanted case-insensivity in file name globbing
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Tue Nov 10 16:21:00 GMT 2015
On 11/10/2015 10:44 AM, Paul wrote:
> Jan Bruun Andersen <jan_bruun_andersen <at> jabba.dk> wrote:
> | Seems overly complicated for me. My current fstab looks like this:
> |
> | # /etc/fstab
> | #
> | # This file is read once by the first process in a Cygwin process tree.
> | # To pick up changes, restart all Cygwin processes. For a description
> | # see https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
> |
> | # Device- Mount- FS-type Options
> Ignored
> | # name point
> | # ------------- --------------- ---------------
> | ----------------------- --------------------
> |
> | C:/Users /home ntfs binary,posix=1,user 0
> 0
> | none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0
> 0
> |
> | If I remember correctly the cygdrive thing is what automatically maps
> | all my C:. D:, E:, etc drives to /C, /D, E and so on.
> |
> | The magic with posix is described here:
> | https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
> |
> | posix=0 - Switch off case sensitivity for paths under this mount point
> | (default for the cygdrive prefix).
> |
> | posix=1 - Switch on case sensitivity for paths under this mount point
> | (default for all other mount points).
>
> Thanks, Jan. I was actually looking at that page, and totally glossed
> over the posix switch. Will try it (the machine is elsewhere).
And don't forget about the registry setting you need in order to turn on
case sensitivity:
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive
Ken
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