On 15 Jun 2007, at 07:02, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
This is all well and good on Windows, but on MacOSX one also has a case insensitive but case preserving filesystem in the form of HFS and HFS+. On MacOSX though, the apr_filepath_merge() follows the UNIX behaviour where APR_FILEPATH_TRUENAME doesn't actually do anything and the case in the path is left as it was in the input.
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1. For MacOSX assume that file systems will be case insensitive and lower case r->filename before using it as the key in the caching system. To cope with possibility that someone may use UFS, or some time down the track ZFS, provide a directive which could be used to indicate that a directory/file system is actually case sensitive. Ie., push it back into user to do manual configuration where required.
let me just point out that it's quite some time since on MacOSX you can use a case preserving Apple_HFSX. I like the manual configuration idea, where you should also be able to configure a default value.
Giuliano
