Re: Msdos name alias patch for 2.1.48 - dont forget the mac

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:45:13 +0100 (BST)

> hm, another thing we didnt think of so far: all these
> 'cross-lookup-system' tools have to convert '\' to '/'
> anyway. So we could well say 'hey if you convert, do
> it right!'.
> _Or_ we have to handle '\' too ... *ducking down*

Ingo,
we do sort of. While folks are looking at this issue also
take a look at the HFS module for the mac and the issues involved
in mounting MAC partitions. "/" is valid in a Mac file name and
the low level code does some name mapping to cope with this
(Mac uses volume:folder:folder:file). That is done at the fs specific
layer however so I think it boils down to case insensitivity issues since
the dcache will see pre-mangled names.

Alan