Re: [PATCH 2/2] ntdll: Check for case-insensitive volumes.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Charles Davis  writes:
> Only if the file system doesn't preserve case. Most modern
> case-insensitive file systems (FAT, NTFS, HFS) preserve case. CIOPFS
> preserves case if it's allowed to write xattrs to the underlying FS.
> This is why I even had the case-preserving handling in there in the
> first place.
>
> So, if I understand correctly, you think that, if we determine that file
> system is case-insensitive, we should also assume it doesn't preserve
> case. Is that correct?

No. The check_case flag is used to specify Unix semantics, but Unix
semantics on a case-insensitive filesystem are just the same as Windows.
It doesn't make sense to try to be more case sensitive than the
filesystem.