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Date:      Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:22:56 -0700
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>, David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.'
Message-ID:  <1394212976.1149.375.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
In-Reply-To: <FE9DAFE1-2165-4EA4-BED8-C84CF68766B4@gmail.com>
References:  <5319757E.1060301@freebsd.org> <821C2C51-604E-43E0-9796-300996B81B41@FreeBSD.org> <CAF6rxgmfFQkvxXvkFtPe56ineg0qwUX9p8p=N1UwGaUeZQqO0g@mail.gmail.com> <FE9DAFE1-2165-4EA4-BED8-C84CF68766B4@gmail.com>

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On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 10:19 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
>=20
> > On 7 March 2014 11:41, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org> 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





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