From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: New winsup snapshot 4/22/98
23 Apr 1998 06:28:14 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<01BD6ED9.D5BD8D50.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@drs>
To:	"cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>,
	"noer AT cygnus DOT com" <noer AT cygnus DOT com>,
	"'Christopher Faylor'"
	<cgf AT cygnus DOT com>

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Is the mixed case patch really read for wide distribution (although it's
> possible that there are more people using coolview than "raw" B19.1)?
> Do you have it working 100% on everything like link, rename, chdir?

I use this patch for a several months. One of projects couldn't be compiled 
without this patch :-) Mixed case directory names and rename are not 
supported. To support mixed case directories cygwin.dll have to maintain 
"current directory" itself, and use NT kernel calls instead of "official" 
win32 calls.

> I still think that this should be a mount option rather than (or in
> addition to) an CYGWIN32 option.
>

I think it too, the same for ntea usage.

> Who is using this functionality?  Do you actually have coolview users
> who absolutely have to have this?  Personally, I'd use it if I was

Yes.

> How about creating the patch #ifdef'ed ALLOW_MIXED_CASE ?  We could

It's not neccessary - the patch does nothing if CYGWIN32 is not set to "  
mixed"

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia.

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