Re: Case Sensitive Format
Re: Case Sensitive Format
- Subject: Re: Case Sensitive Format
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:57:42 +0100
At 15:11 -0600 UTC, on 2011-01-23, Luther Fuller wrote:
> I just got an email from a user of my software.
> My software creates a preference file named
>"com.AbcdefGhijkl.MnopqrStuvwx.plist".
> But, the error message he reports shows a file named
>"com.abcdefghijkl.mnopqrstuvwx.plist"
>
> I did a test in which I changed the name of the preference file to lower
>case. No error.
[... file system]
> Does anyone have any experience with Case-sensitive formats?
Not me. The common argument against using it is that "some" programs just
assume case-insensitivity, and would therefore potentially cause problems on
a case-sensitive file system. I don't recall anyone ever reporting a concrete
app getting that wrong, but it does seem likely that some make this mistake.
> And, would using a Case-sensitive format cause this error?
Might your code accidentally contain upper and lowercase versions of that
string? On a case insensitive flie system (the default) you can get away with
that. On a case-sensitive file system, you'd be punished :)
At 15:19 -0600 UTC, on 2011-01-23, Luther Fuller wrote:
[... from Spanish]
> Format: Mac OS Plus (with registry)
Apple uses the user-friendly string "Mac OS Extended" to mean a HFS+ file
system. Possibly that's where the "Plus" comes from.
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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