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Re: [RFC] new substitute path when loading feature

> Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 22:04:49 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: aristovski@qnx.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, eliz@gnu.org
> 
> > set support-dos-filenames (on|off|auto)
> > 
> > Auto would be case sensitive on POSIX hosts, on wouldn't, auto would
> > be the default.
> 
> Sorry, but I think this really is a bad idea.  For a native debugger
> on a POSIX system I really don't want the oddities of dos-like filenames.

Well, then you could set this option to never do that, couldn't you?

The problem is real, Mark.  Why can't we give our users a way to cope
with it, as an option?
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