Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: linux on HFS? why not HPFS instead? | Date | 7 May 1996 04:08:02 GMT |
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Followup to: <96May5.130747+0100met_dst.2218-333+1@work.smurf.noris.de> By author: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On a case-preserving file system, of course, your Makefile would still be > fount when you type M<tab>. But the only reasonably compatible way to deal > with this issue is to have the HFS file system return an error if you try > to create a makefile when Makefile exists. >
Either that or overwrite the Makefile, which is what a Mac would do. Another issue is that the HFS pathname separator is : but / for UNIX; this of course can be dealt with by swapping : and / (i.e. you write the file "1:2" in UNIX, you really write "1/2" to the disk and mutus mutandis.)
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