getting the on-disk case for a path

Jeremy Drake cygwin@jdrake.com
Fri Aug 8 00:31:11 GMT 2025


On a case-insensitive but case-preserving filesystem, is there a Cygwin
API to get the on-disk case for a given path?  It seems like `realpath`
ought to do it but running
$ touch case-test
$ realpath CASE-TEST
returns CASE-TEST.  Regardless, canonicalize_file_name or realpath may not
be what I want because it would dereference symlinks.

Background: I'm trying to debug some test failures in Clang, due to a
warning that's supposed to be issued when you #include "foo.h" but the
file on disk that it opened is "Foo.h".


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