Subject: Re: kern/31312: msdosfs does not know about case-sensitive
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/14/2005 15:04:02
The following reply was made to PR kern/31312; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
To: Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@tools.de>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/31312: msdosfs does not know about case-sensitive
 filenames
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:03:06 +0200

 On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:07:03 +0200
 Wolfgang Solfrank <ws@tools.de> wrote:
 
 > So what would you expect?  msdosfs is defined to be case-insensitive.
 > There is nothing to be fixed here.
 
 Sorry I was not clear enough in the PR. The problem is that msdosfs
 shouldn't allow to create files with the same name, because the
 file system is case-insensitive. If you create two files, both will be
 added into the namei cache, but only one will be freed latter.