Re: cygwin coreutils-6.9-5

[Eric Blake]

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According to James Youngman on 8/27/2007 4:31 PM:
> If applications are supposed to be able to use _PC_CASE_INSENSITIVE to
> figure out if rename("a","A") should be a no-op, then there is an
> assumption that the kernel and the userspace have identical ideas
> about case conversion (that is whether the source and destination file
> names differ only by case).   I'm not sure how that could happen.

Paul Eggert already identified this as the first major hurdle to be resolved:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-08/msg00118.html

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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