On 3/4/2018 11:14 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2018-03-04 03:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Mar 3 11:14, Brian Inglis wrote: >>> On 2018-03-03 01:36, Fergus Daly wrote: >>>>>> Run stat on original and converted files. >>>> >>>> OK. I get this: >>>> >>>> ~> stat /j/PStart.xml >>>> File: /j/PStart.xml >>>> Size: 7233 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 65536 regular file >>>> Device: a6418e7fh/2789314175d Inode: 7206475022584976007 Links: 1 >>>> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (197609/ fergusd) Gid: (197609/ fergusd) >>>> Access: 2018-03-03 00:00:00.000000000 +0000 >>>> Modify: 2018-03-02 11:50:12.000000000 +0000 >>>> Change: 2018-03-02 11:50:12.000000000 +0000 >>>> Birth: 2018-03-02 09:26:44.060000000 +0000 >>>> >>>> ~> dos2unix.exe /j/PStart.xml >>>> dos2unix: converting file /j/PStart.xml to Unix format... >>>> >>>> ~> stat /j/PSTART.XML >>>> File: /j/PSTART.XML >>>> Size: 6943 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 65536 regular file >>>> Device: a6418e7fh/2789314175d Inode: 7206475022584976007 Links: 1 >>>> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (197609/ fergusd) Gid: (197609/ fergusd) >>>> Access: 2018-03-03 00:00:00.000000000 +0000 >>>> Modify: 2018-03-03 08:27:16.000000000 +0000 >>>> Change: 2018-03-03 08:27:16.000000000 +0000 >>>> Birth: 2018-03-03 08:27:15.210000000 +0000 >>>> >>>> Does that help at all? >>>> >>>> It's not so much the behaviour on FAT32, which I could put up with as >>>> a filesystem pehenomenon if it had always been the case: but it's just >>>> started in the past few days. Can't think what has been updated that >>>> would cause this change. Previously sed and dos2unix which I use >>>> constantly (and others) did NOT change the case of the filename. >>> >>> Should only be possible if Std C rename was changed in newlib/Cygwin1.dll >>> updates >> >> No changes there, certainly not renaming the file to all uppercase. > > Not suggesting any deliberate impact from newlib/Cygwin but any change could > result in different Windows calls in the emulation layer, or the cause could > be > as in the rest of the sentence trimmed: > > ..."or operation on FAT32 was changed by Windows updates." >
IIRC, the original FAT only allowed uppercase file names. Maybe some emulation switch is on as a result of such updates at the Windows level. -- cyg Simple -- 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
