2008/10/8 jerry gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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
I've added those tests for cygwin and MSWin32 to blead perl recently. See perl-current\lib\File\Spec\Win32.pm: case_tolerant() "Cygwin case-tolerance depends on managed mount settings and as with MSWin32 on GetVolumeInformation() $ouFsFlags == FS_CASE_SENSITIVE, indicating the case significance when comparing file specifications. Since XP FS_CASE_SENSITIVE is effectively disabled for the NT subsystem. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00891.html"; -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/
