From 8e339dd2138e0b39c7a00087cf90e9acdca13ecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karolin Seeger Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:51:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] WHATSNEW: Add note about libsmbclient changes. Karolin (cherry picked from commit 3a4e410e7802073e159b6e4dfdfb3319053503f9) --- WHATSNEW.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 7f8e81769b8..dc2de9873a2 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ Major enhancements in Samba 3.3.0 include: Libraries: o NetApi library implements various new calls for User- and Group Account Management. + o libsmbclient does now determine case sensitivity based on file system + attributes. General changes @@ -184,6 +186,19 @@ A basic config using the current trunk code would look like: Please refer to the idmap_adex(8) man page for more details. +Libraries +========= + +libsmbclient will now treat file names case-sensitive by default if the filesystem +we are connecting to supports case sensitivity. This change of behavior is +considered a bug fix, as it was previously possible to accidentally overwrite a +file that had the same case-insensitive name but a different case-sensitive name +as a previously-existing file, while creating a new file. + +If it is not possible to detect if the filesystem supports case sensitivity, +the user-specified option value will be used. + + ###################################################################### Changes ####### -- 2.11.4.GIT