From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 7 17:23:00 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 64655604; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:23:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org (mho-03-ewr.mailhop.org [204.13.248.66]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 326FE90E; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:22:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c-24-8-230-52.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.230.52] helo=damnhippie.dyndns.org) by mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WLyU6-000CwQ-Sb; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 17:22:59 +0000 Received: from [172.22.42.240] (revolution.hippie.lan [172.22.42.240]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id s27HMuLt052308; Fri, 7 Mar 2014 10:22:56 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ian@FreeBSD.org) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Originating-IP: 24.8.230.52 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1+qzgrk1x1DnNLT4smZQU/i Subject: Re: warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.' From: Ian Lepore To: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: References: <5319757E.1060301@freebsd.org> <821C2C51-604E-43E0-9796-300996B81B41@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1251" Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:22:56 -0700 Message-ID: <1394212976.1149.375.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by damnhippie.dyndns.org id s27HMuLt052308 Cc: Eitan Adler , FreeBSD Current , Rui Paulo , David Xu X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 17:23:00 -0000 On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 10:19 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > On Mar 7, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: >=20 > > On 7 March 2014 11:41, Rui Paulo wrote: > >> On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu wrote: > >>> it seems filename ended with a dot is illegal on Windows, if someon= e > >>> wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a pro= blem. > >>=20 > >> Is this something we want to support? > >=20 > > Yes. > >=20 > >> NetBSD made some invasive changes on their source tree to be able t= o support case-insensitive filesystems (like renaming 'cvs' to 'xcvs' to = avoid clashing with the 'CVS' metadata directory), but they support build= ing NetBSD on many different platforms. > >=20 > > Has anyone enumerated the problematic files for FreeBSD ? >=20 > Last time I looked there were only a handful. I=92ll conduct a census a= nd get a concrete enumeration of the problem=85 Last time I noticed (early last year) there were 3 files ending in a dot and no case conflicts. Mercurial now finds just the one file ending in a dot and no case conflicts (doing "hg init;hg add -q" at /usr/src). -- Ian