Re: filesystems

[Julian Reschke-FJR010 <Julian_Reschke-FJR010@email.mot.com>]

stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz%INTERNET wrote:

> BTW, this problems is very similar to that problem with CD-ROM I
> described here some weeks ago. I asked there the SPIN's author to return
> all filenames from case insensitive CD-ROMs in lowercase, so it would be
> 'compatible' with the rest of operating system.

Sorry, but this is simply incorrect. The file system *must* return the
filenames as they are on the medium. It's up to the application (or the
readdir() binding in the C library) to do a translation.

Regards, jr