Detection of case senstive filenames

[John Ulvr]

There are several files in Linux whose names only differ by capitalization.   This has caused us some support issues due to third party filesystems/revision control systems, which overwrite the wrong file, causing non-obvious compilation errors.   I recently added a more obvious compile time failure to some of these files to reduce the number of support calls we get on the subject.   I thought I'd bring it up in case someone thinks it might be a good idea to move this to the mainstream kernel.   The code is:

  /* if your compiler generates an error here, it is likely due to a filename-capitalization error, caused by a case-insensitive filesystem or revision control system */
  #define __CHECK_FILENAME(filename) \
      static int __checkfname __attribute__((unused)) =  (1/((__builtin_strcmp((__FILE__ + __builtin_strlen(__FILE__) - __builtin_strlen(filename)), filename))?0:1))
  __CHECK_FILENAME("xt_dscp.c");

(This would appear at the bottom of xt_DSCP.c, xt_dscp.c, etc.  in global scope).     While not overly pretty, it does point out what the actual error is, and doesn't have any side-effects.    If there's interest, let me know and I can try to push it upstream.


John

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/