Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:35:46 +0100
> 
> And they don't violate the principle that listing a directory will
> tell you all legal _file names_ available from that directory.  I can
> decide whether the file `/fdsaf/dsafd/asfd/daffa' can exist by looking
> at the directory listing of `/fdsaf/dsafd/asfd/'.
> 
> That is not possible with case insensitive file systems unless I have
> a function that is guaranteed to compare file names exactly in the
> same manner as the operating system does.

The Windows API does have such a function.  Heck, even DOS had it.
And it can be emulated on Posix filesystems with readdir and fnmatch.
It's a non-issue.

> And if I have such a function, it might mean that I can't use file
> names as an index into a hash data structure unless I have a hash
> function that maps operating-system-identical file names onto
> identical keys.

Repeat after me: file names are not strings.