On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 01:30:17PM +0000, Mickey Lane wrote:

> I was not able to detect any sort of case sensitivity using either the
> start menu or a console prompt. 

Hence what makes an interesting... those seem to resolve it.


> Is it possible that Corel Draw
> occasionally uses an 8.3 directory identifer?

Not according to the output of Process Monitor.







> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of Dave Botsch
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 2:35 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [OpenAFS] OAFS 1.7.x Win and Case (In)Sensitivity
> 
> Hi.
> 
> What's the story with case insentitivy or sensitivity with the Windows OAFS 
> client?
> 
> Of course, OpenAFS is case sensitive and Windows is not. So, does the client 
> attempt to resolve things irrespective or case or should it fail if indeed 
> the case doesn't match?
> 
> In this specific case, Corel Draw is attempting a CreateFile call on a path 
> into AFS with everything completely capitalized (why Corel Draw does this in 
> some cases and in others has the path correctly upper and lowered, dunno). 
> When Corel does the all caps, according to Process Monitor, the operation 
> fails with PATH_NOT_FOUND.
> 
> Looking at DebugView with fs trace on ... I see:
> 
> cm_EvaluteVolumeReference for string
> [@vol:CNF.CORNELL.EDU#HOME.STAFF.DWB7]
>   Found cell [CNF.CORNELL.EDU] and volume [HOME.STAFF.DWB7] 
> RDR_EvaluateNodeByName FAILURE code=0x6654321d status=0xc000003a
> 
> I see that 0xc000003a is ineed STATUS_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND
> 
> So, this makes me wonder why if I in the start menu were to type in the same 
> full path in all caps, a windows explorer window opens with the folder.
> 
> Should this be reported as an OpenAFS bug or do I need to engage Corel to try 
> and get them to use case sensitive paths in their calls?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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