From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/mingw32] environment variables are case-insensitive on win32
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121210110128.GA12570@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121210105115.GB15147@adacore.com>
On Dec 10 11:51, Jerome Guitton wrote:
> Christopher Faylor (cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org):
>
> > I wasn't entirely sure what was decided for Cygwin but Cygwin
> > environment variables are meant, like Linux, to be case sensitive.
> > Please keep that in mind when implementing this. The CYGWIN=upcaseenv
> > is a special case and not something that you should have to worry about.
>
> Right, but when GDB creates the inferior it first convert the Cygwin
> environment to Win32 (using CW_CVT_ENV_TO_WINENV) and then uses
> directly CreateProcess. So it seems that the the case sensitivity is
> lost in the process...
No, it's not. The Windows environment is NOT case insensitive, it's
case-preserving. That's a big difference. A process inherits the
environment in exactly the same case as has been used by its parent.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-10 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-30 13:37 Jerome Guitton
2012-11-30 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-30 14:08 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-11-30 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-30 15:34 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-11-30 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-30 16:29 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-11-30 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-07 9:22 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-07 9:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-07 10:06 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-07 10:06 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-12-07 10:11 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-07 10:18 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-11-30 19:02 ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-03 11:31 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-09 23:53 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-12-10 10:51 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-10 11:01 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2012-12-10 13:50 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-12-10 15:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-10 15:42 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-10 15:58 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-10 16:08 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-10 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-10 16:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-10 16:24 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-10 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-10 16:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-10 20:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-11 10:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-11 14:25 ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-11 14:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-11 15:07 ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-11 15:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-11 15:23 ` Pierre Muller
2012-12-14 10:55 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-14 10:35 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-10 15:35 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-10 16:09 ` Pierre Muller
2012-12-10 16:18 ` 'Jerome Guitton'
2012-12-10 16:27 ` Pierre Muller
2012-12-10 16:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-12-10 18:22 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-10 18:35 ` Pierre Muller
2012-12-10 18:36 ` 'Jerome Guitton'
2012-12-11 9:50 ` 'Jerome Guitton'
2012-12-11 16:27 ` Christopher Faylor
[not found] ` <002401cdd6f0$c0b317b0$42194710$%muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
2012-12-10 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-10 16:40 ` Pierre Muller
2012-12-10 16:51 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-12-10 17:16 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-11-30 14:43 ` Pedro Alves
2012-11-30 15:03 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-11-30 15:38 ` Jerome Guitton
2012-11-30 15:41 ` Pedro Alves
2012-11-30 15:46 ` Tom Tromey
2012-11-30 15:49 ` Pedro Alves
2012-11-30 16:02 ` Jerome Guitton
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