Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:22:56 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>, David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.' Message-ID: <1394212976.1149.375.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <FE9DAFE1-2165-4EA4-BED8-C84CF68766B4@gmail.com> References: <5319757E.1060301@freebsd.org> <821C2C51-604E-43E0-9796-300996B81B41@FreeBSD.org> <CAF6rxgmfFQkvxXvkFtPe56ineg0qwUX9p8p=N1UwGaUeZQqO0g@mail.gmail.com> <FE9DAFE1-2165-4EA4-BED8-C84CF68766B4@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 10:19 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > On Mar 7, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote: > > > On 7 March 2014 11:41, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >>> it seems filename ended with a dot is illegal on Windows, if someone > >>> wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a problem. > >> > >> Is this something we want to support? > > > > Yes. > > > >> NetBSD made some invasive changes on their source tree to be able to support case-insensitive filesystems (like renaming 'cvs' to 'xcvs' to avoid clashing with the 'CVS' metadata directory), but they support building NetBSD on many different platforms. > > > > Has anyone enumerated the problematic files for FreeBSD ? > > Last time I looked there were only a handful. I’ll conduct a census and get a concrete enumeration of the problem… Last time I noticed (early last year) there were 3 files ending in a dot and no case conflicts. Mercurial now finds just the one file ending in a dot and no case conflicts (doing "hg init;hg add -q" at /usr/src). -- Ianhelp
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