From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug Emacs 21.3: write-file downcasing Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:33:03 +0530 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030210100303.8DB3C485C0@server2.fastmail.fm> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044872502 13726 80.91.224.249 (10 Feb 2003 10:21:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:21:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18iB4D-0003Yw-00 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:21:37 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18iBF9-00035l-00 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:32:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iB1m-0007xF-08 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:19:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iB1T-0007rl-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:18:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iAt2-0005Iz-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:10:04 -0500 Original-Received: from ny2.fastmail.fm ([66.111.4.3] helo=server2.fastmail.fm) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18iAmJ-0003PH-00; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:03:07 -0500 Original-Received: from server2.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95D9D420C5; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:03:03 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=server2.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:03:03 -0500 Original-Received: by server2.fastmail.fm (Postfix, from userid 99) id 8DB3C485C0; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:03:03 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) Original-To: "Eli Zaretskii" X-Epoch: 1044871383 X-Sasl-enc: E7zxIulRb4eF2hwHv803kQ In-Reply-To: Original-cc: Emacs Bug X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11531 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11531 On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:46:11 +0200 (IST), "Eli Zaretskii" said: > > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Dhruva Krishnamurthy wrote: > > > If this problem is left unsolved, If I try to write in to an NFS mounted > > file system, just imagine if the downcasing happens. I will end up > > having filenames which do not adhere to what I typed (as Unix file > > system is case sensitive). > > Could you please try that and see if the Windows port of Emacs indeed > downcases file names in that case? I think it queries the system about > the letter-case type of the underlying filesystem and behaves > accordingly, but perhaps the primitives which do that are not called in > the case in point. > I just tried it on an NFS folder. The same downcasing happens. with regards, dhruva -- Dhruva Krishnamurthy Home: http://www32.brinkster.com/schemer/