From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter) Subject: Re: Perl 5.003_90 Configure recursion using beta 17.1e 1 Mar 1997 09:27:34 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33185DEA.7561.cygnus.gnu-win32@netcom.com> References: <199703011413.BAA30116@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: Fergus Henderson Original-CC: gnu-win32 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Fergus Henderson wrote: > > Jim Balter, you wrote: > > -m is a no-op in b17. > > Oh. Why?? Well, I can't read Geoff Noer's mind, only his code, and he doesn't seem to post much here other than press releases, but I assume because it never worked right in the first place and when he rewrote the path code he didn't have the time or the inclination to make it work. Two obvious problems with the old code were that readdir did the conversion whether the path was mounted -m or not, and /UP/down got converted into /^up/^down because the encoding didn't reset at each /, and that would readdir as DOWN. And then there's the fact that NTFS sort of provides case sensitivity via FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS, so maybe that should be used when possible. -- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".