[17742] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.3.17: attach
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Sat Apr 8 12:40:10 2000
Message-Id: <200004081640.MAA03203@biohazard-cafe.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 12:40:05 -0400
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
System name: biohazard-cafe.mit.edu
Type and version: Ultra-60 8.3.17 (with mkserv)
Display type: unknown
Shell: /bin/sh
Window manager: fvwm2
What were you trying to do?
Run "add tcl"
What's wrong:
Attach attaches things in a case-insensitive manner, but
checks for collisions in a case-sensitive manner:
biohazard-cafe{33}% add tcl
tcl: Tcl is already attached on /mit/tcl.
biohazard-cafe{34}% attach | grep -i tcl
Tcl /mit/tcl pju w,nosuid
I've seen this happen with "Tcl" and with "Sipb" on the
dialups, haven't yet seen it happen with other lockers.
What should have happened:
Attach should be consistent about whether or not it is
case sensitive. If hesiod lookups are always
case-insensitive, then attach shouldn't care about case
when checking to see if the named locker can be attached.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Don't have any, sorry.
-Jacob
