Testiness.
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Wed Aug 31 00:29:08 UTC 2005
In message <200508301909.03225.rob at landley.net> you wrote:
>
> Is this ubuntu brokenness, gnu brokenness, some standards body that
> collectively dropped acid, or a simple mistake nobody's bothered to correct
> because they think it's intentional?
I see the same in several current Linux distros (Ubuntu, Fedora Core
2/3/4, SuSE 9.2/3...) when using such locale settings.
For example:
Fedora Core 2:
$ cat /etc/issue
Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
Kernel \r on an \m
$ echo [a-z]*
config.mk CVS flash.c load_sernum_ethaddr.c Makefile tqm8xx.c u-boot.lds u-boot.lds.debug
[mind the "CVS' and "Makefile" entries which definitely do NOT match
"[a-z]*' - at least in my understanding.]
Fedora Core 4:
$ cat /etc/issue
Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz)
Kernel \r on an \m
$ echo [a-z]*
config.mk CVS flash.c load_sernum_ethaddr.c Makefile tqm8xx.c u-boot.lds u-boot.lds.debug
$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
$ LANG=C
$ echo [a-z]*
config.mk flash.c load_sernum_ethaddr.c tqm8xx.c u-boot.lds u-boot.lds.debug
SuSE 9.2:
$ cat /etc/issue
Welcome to SuSE Linux 9.2 (i586) - Kernel \r (\l).
$ echo [a-z]*
config.mk CVS flash.c load_sernum_ethaddr.c Makefile tqm8xx.c u-boot.lds u-boot.lds.debug
$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8
$ LANG=C
$ echo [a-z]*
config.mk flash.c load_sernum_ethaddr.c tqm8xx.c u-boot.lds u-boot.lds.debug
> This is clearly broken behavior, I'm wondering where the brokenness
> originated. (I'm guessing Microsoft might have been involved if it's a
> standards body. After all, MS filesystems are case insensitive...)
Looks broken to me, too. But it seems very few people even notice,
and even fewer care.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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