Re: Unwanted case-insensivity in file name globbing

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 11/10/2015 10:44 AM, Paul wrote:
> Jan Bruun Andersen <jan_bruun_andersen <at> jabba.dk> wrote:
> | Seems overly complicated for me. My current fstab looks like this:
> |
> | # /etc/fstab
> | #
> | #    This file is read once by the first process in a Cygwin process tree.
> | #    To pick up changes, restart all Cygwin processes.  For a description
> | #    see https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
> |
> | # Device-       Mount-          FS-type         Options
> Ignored
> | # name          point
> | # ------------- --------------- ---------------
> | ----------------------- --------------------
> |
> | C:/Users        /home           ntfs            binary,posix=1,user     0
> 0
> | none            /               cygdrive        binary,posix=0,user     0
> 0
> |
> | If I remember correctly the cygdrive thing is what automatically maps
> | all my C:. D:, E:, etc drives to /C, /D, E and so on.
> |
> | The magic with posix is described here:
> | https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
> |
> |   posix=0   - Switch off case sensitivity for paths under this mount point
> |      (default for the cygdrive prefix).
> |
> |   posix=1   - Switch on case sensitivity for paths under this mount point
> |      (default for all other mount points).
>
> Thanks, Jan.  I was actually looking at that page, and totally glossed
> over the posix switch.  Will try it (the machine is elsewhere).

And don't forget about the registry setting you need in order to turn on 
case sensitivity:


https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-casesensitive

Ken


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