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


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: find-library-name fails if file (with no extension) exists.
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:33:45 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (gnu/linux)

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> It is a constant trouble for programmers, and that leads to quite
>> obtuse user problems.
>
> The trouble is that it is easy to forgot the other alternative (case
> sensiteve/insensitive file names) when you write code.

It is not even possible to write code with a reasonable chance of
working reliably since one can have Windows and Unix file systems on
the same system and export either with Samba or NFS or a number of
other ways.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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