Re: CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES regressions

[David Newall]

tridge@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
>  >  * "cp dscf4160.jpg dscF3011.jpg" does not work - i.e. cam ignores the
>  >    file without error.
>  >    Reason for that is that dscF3011 has an illegal 8.3 name
>
> yep, that's expected. I suggested a possible way of handling this to
> Hirofumi-san (ie. change the case of the name), but he prefers to keep
> things simple for now.
>   

Expected or not, it's a serious bug. If it doesn't canonify the
filename, it should return an error. Lying by returning success is
horridly wrong. And I might just suggest that as people are now
accustomed to typing mixed-case filenames, it's a bug that's likely to
occur more frequently than it might at first seem.
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