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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:27:44 +0100
From:      Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r187332 - head/tools/regression/usr.bin/jot
Message-ID:  <20090117112744.GA60849@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090117142021.92d5a40b.stas@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200901161547.n0GFlZ4C012008@svn.freebsd.org> <20090117142021.92d5a40b.stas@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 02:20:21PM +0300, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
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> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:47:35 +0000 (UTC)
> Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org> mentioned:
> 
> > Author: ed
> > Date: Fri Jan 16 15:47:35 2009
> > New Revision: 187332
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187332
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Allow jot(1) regression tests to be checked out on Windows filesystems.
> >   
> >   The jot(1) regression tests directory contained two tests named `wx' and
> >   `wX', which doesn't work on case insensitive filesystems. Rename `wX' to
> >   `wX1'.
> >   
> >   MFC after:	1 month
> > 
> 
> Was this discussed somewhere? I don't understand why we should restrict our
> filesystem naming because of limitation of auxilary filesystems. There're
> even more restrictive filesystems available, we couldn't support them all.
> While previous modifications looked harmless this one seems questionable to me.
> 
> I understand, this is a bikesched, but I really don't see a reason. You can't
> build FreeBSD on windows anyway.

otoh I can easily imagine that someone wants to read the code on a windows machine...



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