BUG or BY DESIGN? Filehandling on .NET is not windows compatible for NTFS and FAT

Hi,

On the file handling methods, if you are dealing with files (Windows
filesystem is case INSENSITIVE) yet when you specify file A.BLAH and its
a.blah on windows, you get FileNotFoundException.

If this by design for cross platform and different file systems or a bug?
Shouldnt this be defaulting to INSENSITIVE instead of SENSITIVE on windows
NTFS (for FATxx for that matter)?

Thanks.

[Jochen Kalmbach]

wrote:

On the file handling methods, if you are dealing with files (Windows
filesystem is case INSENSITIVE) yet when you specify file A.BLAH and
its a.blah on windows, you get FileNotFoundException.

If this by design for cross platform and different file systems or a
bug?
Shouldnt this be defaulting to INSENSITIVE instead of SENSITIVE on
windows NTFS (for FATxx for that matter)?

Please provide an example...
For me it is not reproducable...

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[Yura2000]

It depends om File system
NTFS is case-preserving file system - it distinguishes between files with same name in different cases
Fat is not case preserving.

On NTFS I have the same file returned for A.txt and a.txt so how is NTFS
preserving that when infact it doesnt (at least publically) differentiate
between them?
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It depends om File system:
NTFS is case-preserving file system - it distinguishes between files with same name in different cases. Fat is not case preserving.

[Morten Wennevik]

Actually, I don't think it's very case sensitive, but it stores case
information in the filename.

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[Yura2000]

Pracices and theory are not things that go together, by Microsoft :-)
By Microsoft, NTFS supports POSIX, so README.txt and readme.txt are different files.
In the reallity , you cannot create these files in the same directory on your hard drive.

[Aaron Queenan]

> In the reallity , you cannot create these files in the same directory on
your hard drive.

Unless you're using the POSIX sub-system. The old version of the MS proxy
server seems to have been doing that, because backing its cache up often
failed due to "duplicate" filenames.