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From: | "Gerald S. Williams" <gsw AT agere DOT com> |
To: | <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com> |
Subject: | Re: True case-sensitive filenames |
Date: | Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:47:21 -0500 |
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Christopher Faylor wrote: > Huh? Weren't we talking about using POSIX_SEMANTICS to provide > case sensitivity? I wasn't straying from that. Good, we were on the same page. I was getting worried. :-) Unfortunately, Microsoft didn't provide POSIX_SEMANTICS for CreateDirectory(), RemoveDirectory(), or MoveFile(). We can provide NT-specific alternatives for all three, although it may not be possible to provide case-sensitive replacements (at least not portably) under Win9X/ME. Another option would be to accept (and document) the naming restrictions that using those functions would cause, but it sounds like you already ruled that out. -Jerry P.S. Assuming we're going with the NT-specific alternatives, we still need to implement a case-sensitive directory rename. I expect it may require the Native API. I wish there were some way I could take a quick peek at NT's MoveFile() implementation. :-)
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