On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:11:19AM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > Instead of trying to determine which filesystem your on (is there any > reasonable way of evening doing that?) why not just test for case > sensitivity when the module is loaded with a BEGIN block? Granted this > is ugly, and granted you would likely only be able to test the file > system that a dir created by File::Temp::tempdir() lives on, but it > should be fairly portable.
That's the general idea. In fact I've just cracked open my old File::System::Spec idea to do just that sort of probing. However, this is outside the scope of File::Basename. Fixing the "operating system == file system" assumption piecemeal would just cause more problems. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Phillip K. Dick
