From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@codesourcery.com>
To: Philip Craig <philipc@snapgear.com>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: netfilter files in a case-insensitive filesystem
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:45:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060601154514.GA4977@lios> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <447E7DC9.9010809@snapgear.com>
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:40:25PM +1000, Philip Craig wrote:
> On 05/24/2006 06:27 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > Such files conflict in a case-insensitive filesystem. This is a problem
> > for users building on Windows, or installing the headers on a Windows
> > case-insensitive filesystems.
> >
> > The structures in the conflicting files seem to have unique names. Is it
> > possible to merge both files together?
>
> Depends what exactly you are trying to do. If you are just trying to
> build an application that uses them, then you could probably merge them;
> have you tried? Building the kernel would require more work.
>
I have not tried merging the headers. I was deffering to the experts to
get an opinion :)
The current goal is to be able to ship the headers for use in an
environment which resides on a case-insenstive filesystem.
If we did the work, would the community accept such patches?
Cheers,
Carlos.
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Carlos O'Donell
CodeSourcery
carlos@codesourcery.com
(650) 331-3385 x716
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-01 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-23 20:27 netfilter files in a case-insensitive filesystem Carlos O'Donell
2006-06-01 5:40 ` Philip Craig
2006-06-01 15:45 ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2006-06-02 0:14 ` Philip Craig
2006-06-02 15:24 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2006-06-05 13:40 ` Carlos O'Donell
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