Re: [dev] [libixp] Fix build on case insensitive FS

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Kris Maglione<maglione.k_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 05:38:22PM +0900, KIMURA Masaru wrote:
>>
>> Subject said it all.
>
> Thanks, this should be fixed. But I don't think the case insensitive FS is
> the issue.

Case insensitive FSs are not 'an issue', they are a disease and anyone
found using such a FS should be exterminated on the spot to keep the
disease from spreading.

uriel

> I've been assured that wmii and libixp build fine on
> Darwin/OS-X's case-insensitive HFS. The problem with CIFS, I think, is
> mandatory file locking, which among other things forbids unlinking a file
> which is already opened. Normally, you can unlink the .o file and write a .O
> file in its place, but if the loader still has the .o file of the same name
> open, that won't work on CIFS.
>
> --
> Kris Maglione
>
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Received on Sun Sep 06 2009 - 23:32:22 UTC