Re: [0/5] xtables: phase out case sensitivity

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Le mardi 18 janvier 2011 Ã 19:21 +0100, Jan Engelhardt a Ãcrit :
> On Tuesday 2011-01-18 17:16, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> >On 18.01.2011 16:38, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> http://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694 [...] While I
> >> have to question why users are relying on inferior filesystems
> >> (the issue was raised before on the lists), I feel inclined to
> >> solve bugs. So here is a proposed patchset that starts the
> >> migration. [...]
> >
> >I don't want to apply this. Feel free to try to convince other 
> >netfilter developers that this is a good idea and I'll pull it in, but 
> >so far this looks like useless noise to me.
> >
> >[...] I don't see any benefit in causing so much churn just for one* 
> >*user, who has been feeling unhappy about his scripts not working 
> >properly.
> 
> I'll try to add to my case then; The dependency on case-sensitivity is a 
> long-known issue, so much that in fact, Bart avoided doing this again as 
> early as ebtables's inception around 2002.


Why not renaming only clashing files, and make sure future files are
lowercase only ?




--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [Netfitler Users]     [LARTC]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Forum]

  Powered by Linux