Re: [Monotone-devel] clarifications about bookkeeping dir

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:22:11 +0100, Jon Bright 
<address@hidden> said:

jon> Nathaniel Smith wrote:
jon> > Effectively replying to a few different emails here...
jon> >   -- "MTN" is not one of the options.  It conflicts with the
jon> >      executable name on case insensitive filesystems.  The bookkeeping
jon> >      dir must have a name one would not otherwise use, and obviously
jon> >      if we're _shipping_ a file named that it is hard to argue that it
jon> >      will not be otherwise used :-).
jon> 
jon> At least for Win32, this isn't an issue.  It's not going to try
jon> and execute the directory.  I don't know about ancient MacOS
jon> filesystems or VMS.  Richard?

Not a problem on VMS.  If nothing else is said, executable binaries
are required to have the extension .EXE, and there's simply no way to
mix that up with a directory (which, btw, always has the extension
.DIR).

Cheers,
Richard

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