GNU bug report logs - #22300
25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>

Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 20:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 24441

Found in versions 24.5, 25.1.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22300 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, esq <at> lawlist.com, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase.
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:44:29 +0200

> From: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>,  22300 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  esq <at> lawlist.com
> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 11:22:57 -0800
> 
> >>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > If OS X filesystems are always case-insensitive, perhaps the same code
> > should also be compiled on that system. If some of OS X filesystems are
> > case-sensitive, we can only do that if Emacs can know which one is it.
> 
> The boot filesystem must be case-insensitive, but HFS+ allows formatting a
> drive as case-sensitive on non-boot volumes, so we can't assume OS X = case
> insensitive. (I also use ZFS on the Mac, which can be case sensitive or
> insensitive).

Is there a C-callable API that could establish which one is it?
Something like the Posix 'pathconf', perhaps, with some magic
_PC_something argument?
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