On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:33:30 +1200 Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
On 21/04/10 12:47, Mike Meyer wrote:
if you have a way to make it case-sensitive, you're back where we started from: needing to figure out whether the files in question care about case.
It's not whether the *files* care about case, it's whether the *application* cares about case.
Actually, it's the file system. The *application* case is dealt with by the option of doing a case-insensitive test. If you turn that off, then you have to figure out whether or not the file system is case insensitive to do it right.
So I think it's likely that in any particular case, the caller of hasextension() will know whether he wants case-sensitivity or not.
Right. I'm talking about the case where the developer knows he wants case sensitivity. In that case, you have to know whether or not the file system is case sensitive to know whether or not "file.c" would get opened if the application tried to open "file.C". <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org