From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 654 invoked by alias); 23 Jul 2009 01:04:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 490 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jul 2009 01:04:31 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:04:21 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE2F2BAB25; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:04:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id KJ2zVcx6jMVF; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:04:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.104] (dpc6682073249.direcpc.com [66.82.73.249]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 01E212BAB12; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:04:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A67B704.6030402@gnat.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:11:00 -0000 From: Douglas B Rupp User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DJ Delorie CC: ian@airs.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Libiberty for VMS - mkstemps.c don't mix case References: <4A67B113.7010903@gnat.com> <200907230045.n6N0j7NW029586@greed.delorie.com> In-Reply-To: <200907230045.n6N0j7NW029586@greed.delorie.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2009-07/txt/msg01253.txt.bz2 DJ Delorie wrote: >> VMS temp files must be case insensitive. > > So do Windows files, but they haven't complained yet... Why is VMS > different? > Well... just because windows users haven't complained doesn't mean the problem doesn't theoretically exist. I would argue VMS machines are genrally larger with more simultaneous developers than windows and so the problem is more likely to occur.