From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Rhide, NT and LFN - some news
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:47:49 +0200
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Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> How to fix libc:
> 
> If an entire long filename is uppercase, lowercase it before returning
> it to the caller. That's what Linux vfat support does.

Not only does the library already do so, it's even documented--see the docs
of the function _preserve_fncase in libc.info.

Note that the library only does this for DOS 8+3 names; long file names are
left intact, because otherwise names like GETTING.GNU.SOFTWARE would also be
downcased.  If Linux does that with long file names, Linux is wrong.