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Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X |
Date: |
Thu, 19 May 2016 19:39:10 +0300 |
> From: Tim Ruehsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: Ryan Schmidt <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 10:59:27 +0200
>
> After looking closer to this issue... it is a more general issue with file
> systems that change/mangle the filenames. The wget test suite will likely
> break on many such file systems. On (v)fat (e.g. 8.3 mangling), on hpfs also
> due to lowercasing (see 'man mount' on linux). Also ntfs with certain
> settings.
There's no mangling I know about on VFAT filesystems, AFAIK.
> Anyone wants to implement a list of filesystems to switch off certain tests ?
>
> I personally see this a low priority issue.
> But I would happily accept any patches addressing it.
The usual way of handling this is with some kind of "file-truename"
system call. E.g., the short 8+3 aliases on Windows can be run
through that to retrieve the original long file names.
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X, (continued)
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/18
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X, Ryan Schmidt, 2016/05/18
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/05/18
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X, Andries E. Brouwer, 2016/05/18
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X, Tim Rühsen, 2016/05/18
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X, Tim Ruehsen, 2016/05/19
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [Bug-wget] wget IRI test failures on Mac OS X, Tim Rühsen, 2016/05/19