Re: linux on HFS? why not HPFS instead?
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@freya.yggdrasil.com)
7 May 1996 04:08:02 GMT
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
>=20
> On a case-preserving file system, of course, your Makefile would stil=
l 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.
>=20
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.)
-hpa
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