On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 01:48:17PM -0700, chromatic wrote: > >> In general, filesystems are case-insensitive, not platforms. I believe Mac >> OS >> X's Hateful File System Plus is one offender, though you can use UFS instead. > > HFS+ itself can be set to case sensitive. I have a machine partitioned so that > it has a case sensitive partition, as well as a boot partition with the > default. > > I have no idea whether NTFS can be set to case sensitive. I wouldn't be > surprised if it can, and that that would thoroughly surprise most programs :-) > > Likewise, *nix can mount file systems from machines that are not case > sensitive. You just can't know. > i believe ntfs 5.0 can be set case sensitive--i haven't been crazy enough to try.
give me a method of detecting the file system upon which these tests are running, and i'll give you a box of doughnuts. i might even modify the test. ~jerry
