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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:00:15 +0300
From:      Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling =?UTF-8?B?U23DuHJncmF2?= <des@des.no>
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:  <20090117190015.8209032d.stas@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <86ab9q14dl.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <200901161547.n0GFlZ4C012008@svn.freebsd.org> <20090117142021.92d5a40b.stas@FreeBSD.org> <86ab9q14dl.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:52:38 +0100
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> mentioned:

> Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Was this discussed somewhere?  I don't understand why we should
> > restrict our filesystem naming because of limitation of auxilary
> > filesystems.
> 
> Yes.  We've already renamed files that had : in their names.
> 
> This is not just for Windows's sake, BTW: Apple's HFS and MacOS Extended
> file systems are case retentive but not case sensitive.
> 
> We should restrict filenames in the source tree (and in the installed
> system) to the POSIX portable filename character set ([A-Za-z0-9._-] in
> the C/POSIX locale) and avoid gratuitously long names.
> 

A agree that names should be reasonable, that's exactly my point here. Renaming
wX to wx1 doesn't look reasonable to me, given the names of files corresponds
to the options used in the test.

- -- 
Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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