CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW 2.2.1(0.289/5/3) inconsistency between pwd and readdir

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Francis ANDRE!

> the drive letter returned by pwd is a upper case letter while the drive
> letter returned by readdir is a lower case letter.

> [FrancisANDRE@idefix pocozos ]$pwd
> /cygdrive/Z/git/pocozos
> [FrancisANDRE@idefix pocozos ]$ll /cygdrive
> total 92
> drwxrwxrwx+ 1 NT SERVICE+TrustedInstaller NT SERVICE+TrustedInstaller 0 
> 20 oct.  18:52 c
> drwxrwxrwt+ 1 Administrateurs Système                     0 20 oct.  18:52 d
> drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrateurs Unknown+Group               0 20 oct.  18:52 g
> drwx---rwx+ 1 Administrateurs Administrateurs             0 21 oct.  11:45 z

> Thus, when traversing the /cygdrive tree using a pattern matching code, 
> the /cygdrive/Z directory does not exist while the /cygdrive/z exists.

> Either pwd should return a lower case letter, either readdir should 
> return an uppercase drive letter to get consistent results.

$ cd /cygdrive/c/dev/; pwd
/cygdrive/c/dev
$ cd /cygdrive/C/dev/; pwd
/cygdrive/C/dev
$

Notice the pattern.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 20:57:10

Sorry for my terrible english...