From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25287 invoked by alias); 27 Nov 2010 09:24:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 25279 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Nov 2010 09:24:25 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-out.m-online.net (HELO mail-out.m-online.net) (212.18.0.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:24:18 +0000 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2F7184424A; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:24:14 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: DFu/625sQhPUulTAyGuEwhK/t7Z7jvFm80RMHfBT+/c= Received: from linux.local (ppp-88-217-99-182.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.99.182]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3C9EC1C00372; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:24:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by linux.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 67D361E52F8; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:24:13 +0100 (CET) From: Andreas Schwab To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Jonathan Larmour , pedro@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Fix doc index name on Windows References: <4CEE9F77.1070509@eCosCentric.com> <4CEEAF36.7030005@eCosCentric.com> <83ipzk70w4.fsf@gnu.org> <201011261203.05391.pedro@codesourcery.com> <83d3ps6y9b.fsf@gnu.org> <4CEFCD32.40203@eCosCentric.com> <837hg06oup.fsf@gnu.org> X-Yow: ...Um...Um... Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:24:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <837hg06oup.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:17:50 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.90 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: 2010-11/txt/msg00462.txt.bz2 Eli Zaretskii writes: > I didn't mean in the manual, I meant in the code. Most packages > assume that any file name is valid, and that file names are just > case-sensitive strings. Some packages (GDB is one) are nice enough to > admit that file-name comparison should be case-insensitive on > non-Posix platforms. But I can count on fingers of one hand those > that have code fragments that cater to more serious limitations or > idiosyncrasies of non-Posix platforms. You can count on the fingers of one hand those packages that actually have to care about conflicting file names in the first place. Most programs either don't write files, or they use the file names supplied by the user. Generating file names from user input is rather uncommon. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."