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On Tue May 06 10:11:19 2003, david@kineticode.com wrote: > On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 07:39 AM, Andy Dougherty (via RT) wrote: > > > Alas, we can't assume that the filesystem where perl was built is also > > the > > file system where it will be running. Nor can we assume that all file > > systems mounted under operating system $^O even have the same behavior > > with respect to case. Yes, it's a mess. > > Yes, I knew that. It just seemed the safest assumption. The only other > way to know is to try writing test files to disk and see what happens. > But that'd be a stupid thing to do every time one started a Perl > program. It'd be much nicer if Perl could just somehow know the > difference before calling open(). But I expect that this is a rare > enough problem that it may not be worth the overheard. > > Regards, > > David > There has been no further discussion in this ticket in over 10 years. My sense of the discussion is that the original poster had workarounds and that the problem was not sufficiently severe or widespread to be worth the effort of finding a solution. So I'm taking this ticket for the purpose of closing it in 7 days unless someone wants to pick up the discussion and move it forward. Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=22077Thread Previous | Thread Next