On 28 Dec 2003, at 05:15, jw schultz wrote:
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 10:45:52AM +0100, alain content wrote:
Bad, bad Apple.
Look for the thread on this list with the subject
"workaround for HFS+'s case-insensitivity"
One of the messages discusses options for making hpfs case
sensitive.
Sadly, you ca
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 10:45:52AM +0100, alain content wrote:
> Right,
> Renaming does not touch the file - it only changes the directory
> modification date.
>
> And you are absolutely right. Panther preserves case but is insensitive to
> case in file names :
> ls
> >...
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 ac ac
Right,
Renaming does not touch the file - it only changes the directory
modification date.
And you are absolutely right. Panther preserves case but is insensitive to
case in file names :
ls
>...
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ac ac 0 27 Dec 11:59 a file named ABC
filetest -e "a file named ABC"
> 1
filetest
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 04:39:08PM -0800, Jim Salter wrote:
> JW: in this instance, since he used the -a switch, shouldn't have rsync
> sync'ed the file again anyway, since the file modification date would
> (should?) have been updated when he renamed the file?
Renaming a file (per SUSv3 and POS
JW: in this instance, since he used the -a switch, shouldn't have rsync
sync'ed the file again anyway, since the file modification date would
(should?) have been updated when he renamed the file?
Alain: *does* Panther "touch" the file (and update the file modification
datestamp) when you rename
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 12:28:06PM +0100, alain content wrote:
> Hi,
> I found this surprising behavior with rsync (version 2.5.7 protocol
> version 26) on Mac OS X (Panther, 10.3.2) :
>
> Suppose you have a folder "Source" containing a file named "abc", and its
> backup as folder "Clone", cre
Hi,
I found this surprising behavior with rsync (version 2.5.7 protocol
version 26) on Mac OS X (Panther, 10.3.2) :
Suppose you have a folder "Source" containing a file named "abc", and its
backup as folder "Clone", created by rsync :
rsync -a ~/Desktop/Source/ ~/Desktop/Clone
Now change th
