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Re: [Monotone-devel] clarifications about bookkeeping dir
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Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] clarifications about bookkeeping dir |
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Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:40:58 +0100 (CET) |
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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Re: [Monotone-devel] clarifications about bookkeeping dir, Daniel Carosone, 2006/03/15