Re: Case sensitivity on sftp servers

[Dan O'Reilly <dano%process.com@localhost>]

At 08:20 PM 9/7/2003, Martin Pool wrote:
> So with case sensitivity on
>
>   OPEN("README", WRITE|CREAT|EXCL|CASE_INSENSITIVE)
>
> in a directory containing "readme" ought to fail with
> FILE_ALREADY_EXISTS even on a case-sensitive filesystem, and
>
>   OPEN("README", READ|CASE_SENSITIVE)
>
> in a directory containing "readme" ought to fail with NO_SUCH_FILE
> even on a case-insensitive filesystem?

No, it wouldn't necessarily do so on VMS, which supports multiple versions
of files.

Think outside the box, Grasshopper...<grin>

> Adding this bit doubles or triples the testing domain for many
> operations.  I would suggest not adding this option unless you're
> really sure it's needed.

On UNIX, maybe not.  On Windows, maybe not.  But they're not the only
systems...

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