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Re: Disappearing API docs

From	Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Disappearing API docs
Date	2016-07-20 18:44 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 08:47:02 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 7/20/2016 7:45 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 20:40:30 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> Assume you have a dir with:
>>>
>>> x.html X.html
>>>
>>> For case sensitive path then it is easy:
>>>
>>> http://blabla/x.html gets x.html http://blabla/X.html gets X.html
>>>
>>> For case in-sensitive path then I am not sure what these URL's should
>>> return:
>>>
>>> http://blabla/x.html http://blabla/X.html
>>>
>> They both return the same file because there's only the one item in a
>> case agnostic filing system. It should be selected regardless of the
>> case used to do so.
> 
> The assumption was that you had two files.
> 
Sure - for a case sensitive filing system. 

I'm far from certain that a caseless filing system can ever hold two 
files whose names differ only in the case of one or more characters. 
If you try that with OS/9:, here's what happens:

/dd/DEV/C : echo file >x.txt; cat x.txt; echo File-X >X.txt; cat x.txt
file
File-X
/dd/DEV/C : 

In other words, the first echo wrote 'file' to x.txt. The second echo 
discovered that a file whose name matches X.txt already existed and so it 
overwrote the original file. 

This is exactly how I'd expect any case-agnostic filing system to work. 
Anything else would be quite confusing to use.

-- 
martin@   | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
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Thread

Disappearing API docs Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-07-19 06:46 -0700
  Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 06:54 -0700
    Re: Disappearing API docs Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 10:36 -0700
      Re: Disappearing API docs Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-07-19 12:23 -0700
        Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 12:49 -0700
          Re: Disappearing API docs Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-19 20:31 +0000
            Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 13:59 -0700
              Re: Disappearing API docs Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 14:52 -0700
              Re: Disappearing API docs Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-19 22:03 +0000
                Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 05:36 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-07-20 17:10 +0100
                Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 10:39 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-20 13:59 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 11:08 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-20 21:55 +0000
                Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-07-20 18:19 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-22 13:31 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-07-21 10:08 +0100
                Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-22 13:30 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-22 13:16 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-07-22 15:24 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 15:34 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-22 19:29 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-07-23 21:45 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-30 22:33 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-08-02 11:07 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-08-02 14:26 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-08-02 15:53 -0700
                Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-03 21:55 -0400
              Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-19 20:43 -0400
          Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-19 20:40 -0400
            Re: Disappearing API docs Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-20 11:45 +0000
              Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-20 08:47 -0400
                Re: Disappearing API docs Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-07-20 18:44 +0000
  Re: Disappearing API docs Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-07-19 20:24 -0400

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