[17493] in Athena Bugs
attach case-sensitivity lossage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Whitson)
Mon Jan 31 13:20:34 2000
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>
Date: 31 Jan 2000 13:20:24 -0500
Message-ID: <n91wvoq2jdj.fsf@dragon.mit.edu>
A user was complaining on -i help that "add sipb" wasn't working
properly. Turns out that a previous user had attached "SIPB" instead
of "sipb". Hesiod is case-insensitive, so it happily returned the
usual sipb.filsys.ns.athena.mit.edu record. However, apparently,
attachtab is case-senstive, so when the next user tried to attach
"sipb", attach flamed that "SIPB" was already mounted on /mit/sipb and
failed.
See the -i help logs for around 13:00 today for the conversation
between me and the user (xwxin).
-mike
