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Re: A problem with case of filenames



On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, ORTAL Alpert wrote:

> 
> 
> Ortal Alpert <ortal@batata.fh.huji.ac.il>
> 
> On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Tuvik Beker wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
[SNIP]
> > The most basic problemis the following: it was originally written on
> > VAX, and the  programmer/s refer to the various filesfrom within the
> > sources in lower- upper- and mixed-case. No problem on a stupid VAX, but
> > enough to drive anyone working on UNIX crazy...

[SNIP]
> > Thanks,
> > Tuvik
> > -- 
> > _______________________________________
> >            Tuvik Beker
> >       becket@shum.huji.ac.il
> > Tel. 03-5714436       Fax. 03-5334349  
> > _______________________________________
> > 
> or an more simple not so elegant solution change all your open commands to
> myopen or something and have this one change the filename to lowercase
> 

I think it's VERY elegant, certainly more elegant than the kernel hacking
suggestions that appeared here. But don't change it to 'myopen' - just
link it - when compiling - with another version of open(), this might
help - as far as I remember LD_AOUT_PRELOAD and stuff like that.

Regards,
Nir.


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