Re: [netatalk-admins] Re: afp/tcp patch release a11


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Re: afp/tcp patch release a11
From: wesley.craig@umich.edu
Date: Wed Jul 09 1997 - 09:52:12 EDT


> From: Georg Schwarz <schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de>
> To: poc@pingnet.de (Patrik Schindler)

> > > BTW, does Netatalk treat extensions case insensitively? (i.e. are .htm
> > > and .HTM equivalent by definition?)

> > No as of my knowing and at last, it shouldn't, 'cause Unix-FS are case
> > sensitive.

> still it might make sense to treat extension resolving case insensitively.

They are. See etc/afpd/volume.c. The function in question is
getextmap(). The check is done with strdiacasecmp(), a diacritically
sensative, case insensative, string compare. Which is found in
libatalk/util/strdicasecmp.c. The file name is funny because "ar"
truncates the expected name.

:wes



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