Re: Bug Emacs 21.3: write-file downcasing

[Jason Rumney]

Benjamin Riefenstahl <address@hidden> writes:

> Depends on what you mean by case-sensitive.  I tested this yesterday
> before posting.  My test was:
> 
>   $ echo 1 > test
>   $ echo 2 >> Test
>   $ cat test
>   1
>   2
>   $

Try using wild-cards, or completion and you will see. But I guess
that is bash, rather than the file system itself.

> We could conclude that the problem is not easily solved on GNU/Linux,
> or that it can only be solved with a user setting, but the situation
> on MacOSX is still pretty clear.

If there is a problem on GNU/Linux, and I'm not convinced that there
is, it could easily be solved by a test that combined both inode and
file-name information. The same edge cases that we have with new files
on MS-Windows and with dodgy NFS servers still apply though, and these
are difficult to solve.