[Mono-list] VFAT vs Unix filesystems...

[Jeroen Frijters]

NTFS does support case sensitive operations, but the flag isn't global, but
on a per-call basis. When you open (or create) a file you can specify
FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS to make the operation case sensitive. This
obviously has no impact on .NET because it doesn't set the flag.

Regards,
Jeroen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mono-list-admin@ximian.com 
> [mailto:mono-list-admin@ximian.com] On Behalf Of Fergus Henderson
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 07:06
> To: Jonathan Pryor
> Cc: Pablo Baena; Mono List
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] VFAT vs Unix filesystems...
> 
> 
> On 08-Jan-2003, Jonathan Pryor <jonpryor@vt.edu> wrote:
> > My two cents (since everyone else has already given theirs...)
> > 
> > Mono should be case-insensitive for all assembly name lookups.
> > 
> > Why?  Compatibility.
> 
> What do Microsoft's .NET implementations do in a case-sensitive
> environment?
> 
> In particular:
> 
> 	- What does Rotor do on BSD?
> 
> 	- I vaguely remember hearing something about NTFS having a flag
> 	  you can set (on file names? on directories?) to indicate
> 	  that file names are case-sensitive.  Is that correct?
> 	  If so, how does MS.NET behave if this flag is set?
> 
> -- 
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> that the pursuit
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