From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug Emacs 21.3: write-file downcasing
Date: 12 Feb 2003 19:36:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k7g5z3yb.fsf@nyaumo.jasonr.f2s.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5xwuk5ssl9.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk>
storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> So there are really two issues here when comparing two file names A and B:
>
> 1) do A and B name the same file (could be in different directories)
>
> 2) are A and B the "same" file name, if underlaying FS is case insensitive.
>
> In case 1), comparing inodes (when available) will be the correct solution.
>
> In case 2), just comparing inodes doesn't help.
No, but comparing inodes and file-names in a case-insensitive way
does solve 2).
> Furthermore, if the file hasn't been created yet, you cannot use inodes to
> compare names A and B...
Correct, and that is the case that currently fails under MS-Windows.
So I don't think we have made any progress. I am currently swinging
back to RMS's viewpoint that introducing this new function is not
needed, since I am not aware of any bugs that introducing it would
fix.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-12 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-07 5:38 Bug Emacs 21.3: write-file downcasing Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2003-02-07 8:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-07 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-07 15:50 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-07 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-07 17:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-07 17:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-07 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-09 12:39 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-09 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-10 4:41 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2003-02-10 5:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-10 10:03 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2003-02-10 8:21 ` Jason Rumney
2003-02-10 10:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <m2smuxcwba.fsf@primate.xs4all.nl>
2003-02-10 22:39 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-10 22:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-02-11 22:25 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-12 8:28 ` Jason Rumney
2003-02-12 10:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-12 19:36 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2003-02-12 17:50 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-12 22:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-02-14 22:29 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-02-11 14:53 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-02-11 23:02 ` Jason Rumney
2003-02-12 13:37 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-02-12 13:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-02-12 14:57 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-02-12 19:40 ` Jason Rumney
2003-02-07 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-07 20:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-07 23:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-02-07 18:31 ` Jason Rumney
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