Re: Case Insensitive Filesystems

[Derek Robert Price]

Larry Jones wrote:

> I really wish case insensitive file systems
> would just go away.  :-)
>  

You've got my vote!  :)

I fixed an RCS archive corruption problem back in March that occurred 
when case insensitve clients attempted to rename a file (rm/add), but I 
introduced some new spurious error messages & a server abort when it 
probably shouldn't.  At least it's no longer archive corruption, and the 
trigger cases are rare enough, but GAH!  I'll probably have to spend 
another day or two fixing that.  :(

Mark, adding the tests cases for the case insensitivity problem is going 
to be, at the least, a pain.  It requires a case-insensitive client and 
a case-sensitive server at the same time.  It's possible that some 
forced definitions on a case-sensitive server could produce the 
case-insensitive client, but that's more overhead than I want to get 
into yet.  Maybe after I finish the autotest update.  One of these days 
I'll get back to that.  :(

Maybe the script to pipe to an invocation of `cvs server' would be short 
enough to make it reasonable to mimic a case-insensitve client in 
sanity.sh, but I'm not sure I have the time for that.

Derek

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