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2008/6/2 Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com>: > On Mon, 02 Jun 2008, Reini Urban wrote: >> Jan Dubois schrieb: >> > I don't like the hard-coded "C:" in your patch. Assuming you want to >> > specify the drive where Windows itself was installed, you should >> > write something like this: >> >> No. >> >> case_tolerant is normally used platform-specific only, and not >> drive-specific. So the 99% usecase is without any argument, >> hence just C: (first drive) and not SYSTEMDRIVE // WINDIR > > I don't really understand what you are saying here. The function case_tolerant() has on all other platforms no argument. And it is used always without. So this checks the platform specification and not the drive specs. However case-tolerance is normally mount point / drive-letter specific. Win32 and Cygwin accept now the drive-letter resp. mount point. The modules and scripts which use File::Spec::case_tolerant should start using the argument, to make sense. Unix and others ignore it as long there's no case-tolerant mount point setting involved. For NFS or samba shares we have known limitations so far. > For example it is definitely possible to have an XP system that doesn't even have > a C: drive at all, so assuming that C: is always available and the > first drive in the machine doesn't always hold. The only drive that > MUST be there is the SYSTEMDRIVE, because this is where the OS itself > and the local user profiles are installed. Ok, I never thought about non-C: Windows systems. The cygwin logic is also simplified now. I also added a comment about the missing mount-point arg. Ken, okay for you? Revised patches attached TODO on Unix: Dropped HFS+ its case-intolerancy as announced? FAT support (memory cards, usb sticks e.g.) Samba check smb.cnf: [global] case sensitive = no NFS: mount flag -o casesensitive Don't we have acorn? There's nothing in Configure and no hints for acorn. The Acorn FS would be case tolerant. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/Thread Previous | Thread Next