Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:25:25 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>, 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: <20090120012525.GC29741@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901191653280.36163@fledge.watson.org> References: <200901161547.n0GFlZ4C012008@svn.freebsd.org> <20090117142021.92d5a40b.stas@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901171359250.41192@fledge.watson.org> <20090119165030.GA18409@dragon.NUXI.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901191653280.36163@fledge.watson.org>
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:55:04PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, David O'Brien wrote: >> For changes like this to be reasoned because of building FreeBSD on >> Windows there should consensus. For MacOS X - there is a case sensitive >> FS. > > So I have to reformat my Mac OS X file systems in order to check out > FreeBSD source trees on them because the jot(1) regression test relies on > having two files in the same directory that differ only in case? :-) No Does it really prevent one from checking out the sources - the file name collision should just cause a file to be overwritten. This case should only be an issue if you're trying to run the tests. > one is saying you should be able to check out FreeBSD source trees using > 8.3 DOS filenames, but I think avoiding case collisions makes a lot of > sense. Its built-in to our UNIX fiber - some source bases have both .c and .C files for instance. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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