Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990329114507.00a07bd0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:45:07 -0500 To: Corinna Vinschen , Chris Faylor From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: B20: mv deletes files on error (NT) Cc: David Dagon , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <36FF4EA6.F24559E0@cityweb.de> References: <36FD516F.45299E3E@mindspring.com> <19990329005659.A2473@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:57 AM 3/29/99 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Chris Faylor wrote: >> >> I'm not 100% certain (and I can't check right now) but I think that >> this should not be a problem in recent snapshots. A net contributor >> supplied a patch to make "inode" generation case-insensitive. That >> should make mv capable of detecting this problem and disallowing it. >> >> -chris > >Yes. `mv foo Foo' only outputs the message > > mv: `foo' and `Foo' are the same file > >in the recent snapshots. > >Regards, >Corinna > > If that's true, how does one rename a file based on case sensitivity only? On b19 (which as all I have at this location), mv can do this without complaint or problem... TEST_lhall->touch foo TEST_lhall->ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 544 None 0 Mar 29 11:43 foo TEST_lhall->mv foo Foo TEST_lhall->ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 544 None 0 Mar 29 11:43 Foo Seems a shame if this functionality has been lost... Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053 8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 Wellesley, MA, 02482-7797 http://www.rfk.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com