Re: Msdos name alias patch for 2.1.48 (fwd)
Jim Nance (jlnance@avanticorp.com)
Fri, 8 Aug 1997 14:00:45 -0400 (EDT)
> And note that the new dcache (if it knew about case insensitivity) would
> automatically handle file creations correctly too: if you tried to create
> a file called "makefile" but an old file called "Makefile" already
> existed, a case insenistive dcache would actually _find_ the old Makefile,
> and use that dcache entry (so you'd end up with having a file called
> "Makefile").
If there is a Makefile and a makefile, we need to ensure that we at least
always get the same one (as opposed to the one in the hash first).
Just a thought,
Jim