> From: Tim Ruehsen <[email protected]> > Cc: Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 10:59:27 +0200 > > After looking closer to this issue... it is a more general issue with file > systems that change/mangle the filenames. The wget test suite will likely > break on many such file systems. On (v)fat (e.g. 8.3 mangling), on hpfs also > due to lowercasing (see 'man mount' on linux). Also ntfs with certain > settings.
There's no mangling I know about on VFAT filesystems, AFAIK. > Anyone wants to implement a list of filesystems to switch off certain tests ? > > I personally see this a low priority issue. > But I would happily accept any patches addressing it. The usual way of handling this is with some kind of "file-truename" system call. E.g., the short 8+3 aliases on Windows can be run through that to retrieve the original long file names.
