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From:	John Williams <jwilliams AT itee DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>
Subject:	Re: file name case sensitivity
Date:	Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:37:39 +1000
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Shankar Unni wrote:
> Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> 
>> Yes, but in my opinion it could be of use to John Williams because he 
>> wanted to "case sensitivity in filenames under Cygwin".
> 
> 
> No, it won't work, because if you remember, he said that he had files 
> with the same name but different case *in the same directory*.  

That's correct.  I tried the check_case hack and it only goes halfway to 
what I need.

> uClinux will have to be patched for cygwin support. John: time to start 
> your first set of "unofficial cygwin patches" for uClinux.

I suppose you are right.  I haven't even got the port up and running 
yet, so the last thing I feel like doing right now is creating another 
parallel branch in the source tree.  I'm basically going to ignore this 
problem for as long as I can, I've got much bigger fish to fry right now.

Thanks,

John



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