On Friday 2009-07-03 03:26, tridge@samba.org wrote:

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>

> > Making WINNT the default would cause many a `ls` output to just

> > scream at me in uppercaps because there are programs that

> > create long names with all-uppers.

>

>well, you could also argue that having WINNT in effect does the

>'correct' thing. It causes ls to display the name that is actually in

>the filesystem.

>

>I think the current default for VFAT on Linux is rather misleading. It

>always displays 8.3 names as lowercase,

There is no misleading in that, since VFAT is rather case-insensitive.

Certainly, lowering all 8.3 names is more appalling to the eyes than

keeping all-caps-longnames that way. I think I would even add a new

heuristic for case transformation on display to fit my personal

guidelines which would be:
  ($file, $ext) = ($filename =~ /^(.*)\.(.*)$/);

  $ext = lc $ext;

  if ($file =~ /^[A-Z]+$/) {

      $file = lc $ext;

  }
I think none of the shortcase= options does that at this time.
>I should also point out that if we followed Alan's reasoning then we'd

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>have to actually make all these options separate filesystems[...]

Linux has been doing case conversion all years long so I do not think

Alan's request to make new filesystems was based solely upon

shortname=; otherwise, I suspect, it would have raised it earlier.
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