Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 10:29:12 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> 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: <34CAE2FE-3D3F-4D41-B82D-FDFBA387FD37@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <1394212976.1149.375.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <5319757E.1060301@freebsd.org> <821C2C51-604E-43E0-9796-300996B81B41@FreeBSD.org> <CAF6rxgmfFQkvxXvkFtPe56ineg0qwUX9p8p=N1UwGaUeZQqO0g@mail.gmail.com> <FE9DAFE1-2165-4EA4-BED8-C84CF68766B4@gmail.com> <1394212976.1149.375.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On Mar 7, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > 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 = someone >>>>> wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a = problem. >>>>=20 >>>> Is this something we want to support? >>>=20 >>> Yes. >>>=20 >>>> NetBSD made some invasive changes on their source tree to be able = to support case-insensitive filesystems (like renaming 'cvs' to 'xcvs' = to avoid clashing with the 'CVS' metadata directory), but they support = building 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 = and get a concrete enumeration of the problem=85 >=20 > 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). Confirmed via regex, almost=85 Now there=92s only one ending in dot: ./tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003. Warner
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