[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST: Cygwin 3.0.0-0.1
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Jan 30 14:34:00 GMT 2019
On Jan 30 14:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 30 12:43, Christian Franke wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 3.0.0-0.1
> > >
> > > ...
> > > What's new:
> > > -----------
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > - Support for case sensitive directories. mkdir(2) automatically
> > > creates directories within the Cygwin installation dir as case
> > > sensitive now.
> > >
> > > This feature requires Windows 10 1803 or later and WSL installed!
> >
> > Before enabling WSL and relying on this new feature, users should check
> > their backup tool. Some tools fail if a directory contains names which
> > differ only in letter case. I don't know whether this may also happen if a
> > case sensitive directory simply exists.
> >
> > At least Windows' own imaging tool dism.exe is affected. It is used for
> > example by c't-WIMage (https://heise.de/-3863074, German). This cmd script
> > creates compact incremental backups of the system partition in install.wim
> > files. Depending on the version of dism.exe, the failure occurs during image
> > creation or (even worse) during restore.
> >
> > I have also seen a report that some Paragon imaging tool is affected.
>
> Good point. To expand a bit on the above text:
>
> To reduce side-effects, case-sensitive subdirs are *only* created with
^^^^^^
====> within
> the Cygwin installation directory. Outside, on the rest of the system,
> Cygwin won't do that and just rely on the standard case-sensitivity
> settings per
>
> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive
>
> Which reminds me... I guess I have to tweak the documentation.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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