On May 26 15:57, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: > On 5/26/2011 3:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 02:28:53PM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote: > >>Issue: Possible confusing consequences of CYGWIN variable option: > >>glob:noignorecase > >> > >>What follows is an edited transcript of my confusion about trying > >>to find the command "xwin" (and eventual resolution), having > >>forgotten about its capitalization. More specifically, I was > >>trying to figure out if it was a binary or a script (not having > >>used X in the last year, or so). > >> > >>BTW, the reason I had glob:noignorecase set was to catch > >>capitalization errors on HTML file names I develop for a > >>LAMP server. > >Re: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html > > > > (no)glob[:ignorecase] - if set, command line arguments containing > > UNIX-style file wildcard characters (brackets, question mark, asterisk, > > escaped with \) are expanded into lists of files that match those > > wildcards. This is applicable only to programs running from a DOS > > command line prompt. Default is set. > > > >There was no DOS command line prompt in anything below. > > > True. So, you're saying that 'glob:noignorecase' had no effect on > the commands executed. Then the issue that the transcript reveals > is that in Cygwin, case sensitivity only affects filename specs > if globbing is used. That may, in fact, have been covered somewhere > in the documentation. (?)
You got that wrong. The CYGWIN=glob:... option only affects how globbing is performed on the command line arguments if the Cygwin process has been started from a native Windows process. Full stop. Now, actual filename case sensitivity is an entirely different issue. This is handled by a registry setting, the ability of the underlying filesystems to handle filenames case sesitive, and the settings of the Cygwin mount point: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
