From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug Emacs 21.3: write-file downcasing Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 17:23:12 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <6137-Fri07Feb2003172311+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: <20030207053806.2314348234@server2.fastmail.fm> <20030207084040.376A.LEKTU@terra.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044631663 31047 80.91.224.249 (7 Feb 2003 15:27:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18hAPm-00084d-00 for ; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 16:27:42 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18hAZN-0005aT-00 for ; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 16:37:37 +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 18hAPH-0000tf-03 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 10:27:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18hAOb-0000hb-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 10:26:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18hAOZ-0000fu-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 10:26:27 -0500 Original-Received: from frigg.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.16]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18hAOS-0000Gz-00; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 10:26:20 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretsky ([80.230.234.128]) by frigg.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.2-GA) with ESMTP id CDL40459; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:26:12 +0200 (IST) Original-To: lektu@terra.es X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <20030207084040.376A.LEKTU@terra.es> (message from Juanma Barranquero on Fri, 07 Feb 2003 09:07:44 +0100) Original-cc: seagull@fastmail.fm Original-cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org 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:11467 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11467 > Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 09:07:44 +0100 > From: Juanma Barranquero > > The only fix I can think of seems like a hack, because it would be > necessary to do some sort of canonicalization (to get the drive, for > example, which presumibly depends on the "process' default drive"), but > preserve as much of the user-supplied filename as posible. Perhaps we should discuss the original problem and see if there are any alternative solutions. What was the problem that caused the change in file-truename?