From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19852 invoked by alias); 30 Nov 2012 15:27:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 19825 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Nov 2012 15:27:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il (HELO mtaout23.012.net.il) (80.179.55.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:27:03 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MEB00J00480U100@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:27:01 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MEB00J94490L0A0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:27:00 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:27:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [RFA/mingw32] environment variables are case-insensitive on win32 In-reply-to: <20121130140844.GF2768@adacore.com> To: Jerome Guitton Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83y5hjt8ll.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1354282597-22691-1-git-send-email-guitton@adacore.com> <834nk7urs0.fsf@gnu.org> <20121130140844.GF2768@adacore.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-11/txt/msg00936.txt.bz2 > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:08:44 +0100 > From: Jerome Guitton > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > Eli Zaretskii (eliz@gnu.org): > > > Thanks. But why did you exclude Cygwin? > > Cygwin seems to be case-sensitive: > > guitton@kerel ~ > $ export FooBar=Bar > > guitton@kerel ~ > $ export FooBAR=BAR > > guitton@kerel ~ > $ echo $FooBar > Bar > > guitton@kerel ~ > $ echo $FooBAR > BAR This is Bash, not Cygwin. What happens if you define an environment variable outside of a Cygwin program, and then use getenv in a Cygwin program with different letter-case?