On Wednesday, August 15 2007, "Eric Blake" wrote to "Jonathan Lennox, bug-coreutils@gnu.org" saying:
> > (I reported this issue on the bug tracker on Savannah, but it looks like > > sending bug reports to this mailing list is preferred, so I'm repeating it > > here.) > > The bug-tracker forwards all edits to this list, so you just repeated > yourself. Yes, I saw that on the web archive shortly after I sent the second message. Sorry about that. > Mac HFS is the other biggest case-preserving > case-insensitive system out there; can anyone comment on > whether rename(2) is a no-op or changes case when given two > case-wise distinct spellings of the same file? On Darwin, rename(2) does indeed change case given two spellings of the same file: $ uname -a Darwin woody.local 8.10.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.1: Wed May 23 16:33:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.22.5~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386 $ touch foo $ echo *oo foo $ perl -e 'rename "foo", "Foo" or die ($!)' $ echo *oo Foo Darwin's mv(1) code also has special-case code added to handle case-renaming a directory, to force "mv foo Foo" in that case to be the equivalent of coreutils mv's "mv -T foo Foo". The code (BSD licensed) is at <http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.9.x86/file_cmds-116.10/mv/mv.c>; you might need to register for an Apple ID. -- Jonathan Lennox lennox at cs dot columbia dot edu _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
