Case sensitive filenames
Windows treats filenames case-insensitive by default but according to
msdn that can be changed. I created the files "TEST.txt" and "test.txt"
from Linux in my NTFS partition. Then I wrote a little test program to
read them from Windows. But in all three cases only the first file is
beeing read, as if FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS doesn't affect anything;
::Read(_T("TEST.txt"));
::Read(_T("test.txt"));
::Read(_T("Test.txt"));
void Read (LPTSTR name)
{
CString s;
DWORD dwRead;
char buf[100];
HANDLE h = ::CreateFile( name,
GENERIC_READ,
FILE_SHARE_READ,
NULL,
OPEN_EXISTING,
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE | FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS,
NULL );
if (h == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
{
s.Format(_T("Error: %d"), GetLastError());
AfxMessageBox(s);
return;
}
ReadFile(h, buf, sizeof(buf), &dwRead, NULL);
*(buf + dwRead) = '\0';
CloseHandle(h);
}
What's wrong here?
Hans
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