On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 10:23:58AM -0500, Ken Williams wrote:
> Well, your technique of reading the entire directory just to get the
> proper-case name of a single file is no Cat Pajama Suit either.
>
> The only real way to handle it properly if you have no advance
> knowledge of the filesystem is to query the OS for the proper casing.
> Mac OS X has this ability, it's probably available in other
> case-insensitive case-preserving environments too if we wanted to
> bother with it.
A far simpler thing to do is just write out a mixed-case filename and
see what you get back from readdir() to test for case preservation. For
case sensitivity, just write out a filename and try to open it with a
different casing.
I plan on creating a module to do this sort of file system probing after
I finally get a stable version of MakeMaker out the door.
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<GuRuThuG> make a channel called #Perl, and infest it with joking and
fun.... it doesnt make alot of sense.
