On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:11:19AM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:40:11AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:29:21AM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:22:32AM -0700, Michael G Schwern ([EMAIL > > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > * Simplify the "what's case-insensitive" docs. Its just all non-Unix. > > > > > > What about Mac OS X running HFS? > > > > Or Linux running FAT32? Or OS X running UFS (which is case sensitive)? > > > > The whole idea is basically doomed because we assume the underlying file > > system type based on the operating system. But we make this assumption > > all over the place in the Perl core and File::Basename is not the place > > to start fixing it. > > 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 not going to work on a file system that's mounted read-only. I'd say that for systems that have a /proc/mounts file that lists the file type, the lookup table based on OS should be replaced by a lookup table based on filesystem. Abigail
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