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Re: [RFA/libiberty] Darwin has case-insensitive filesystems

From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
To: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
Cc: brobecker at adacore dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:01:57 -0400
Subject: Re: [RFA/libiberty] Darwin has case-insensitive filesystems
References: <1308087182-26577-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> <BANLkTimEjXmLHD6c=U-oRp06dkpdaO5RCg@mail.gmail.com>

> This is wrong as not all FSs are case insensitive.  In fact HFS+ can
> be case sensitive too.  I think you need better check than just
> saying all Darwin is case insensitive.  This is just like using
> FAT32 on Linux.  In fact I think HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM is
> incorrect also for NTFS as it can also be case sensitive.

There's a difference between case preserving and case sensitive,
though, and we really don't have a portable way to detect
case-sensitivity on a per-directory basis, sow how can we do better?

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [RFA/libiberty] Darwin has case-insensitive filesystems
  - From: Joel Brobecker
- Re: [RFA/libiberty] Darwin has case-insensitive filesystems
  - From: Corinna Vinschen

References:
- [RFA/libiberty] Darwin has case-insensitive filesystems
  - From: Joel Brobecker
- Re: [RFA/libiberty] Darwin has case-insensitive filesystems
  - From: Andrew Pinski

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