Re: realpath() on MacOSX doesn't normalize the case of characters

> Am 05.08.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > On Aug 4, 2015 7:23 PM, "Nicolas Grekas" <nicolas.grekas+php@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I reported this bug one year ago (https://bugs.php.net/67220) and it is > now >> closed as "not a bug". I'd like this to be reconsidered. >> >> The documentation of realpath() says: >> >>> realpath() expands all symbolic links and resolves references to '/./', >>> '/../' and extra '/' characters in the input path ***and returns >>> the >>> canonicalized absolute pathname***. >>> >> >> the last part of this description is IMO what qualifies this behavior on >> MacOSX as a bug. >> >> I'm asking for this now because I spend many hours on Syfony trying to > find >> an efficient workaround, and this is far from easy. Here is the fastest we >> found (it's a mix of scandir()+getcwd()+caching): >> https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/15443 >> >> If realpath were behaving on OSX the same as it does on Windows (and > Linux), >> I could remove 60 lines of wtf lines. >> >> Do anyone else agree? > > I think it could be fixed but can be tricky. > > For windows, there is no path normalization either btw. It would makes > realpath more expensive. > > Also as far as I remember the case sensitivity on osx (for hfs) can be > enabled optionally, or? Case sensitivity is not an issue of OS X but of the underlying Filesystem which is by default on HFS+ disabled. You can enable case sensitivity by reformating the partition using case-sensitive HFS+ Cheers Andreas -- Andreas Heigl andreas@heigl.org