Bug #10700: On case-sensitive filesystem on OS X, Dir.glob("*.TXT") matches case-insensitively

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.2.0p0 (2014-12-25 revision 49005) [x86_64-darwin13]
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: DONE

[hasari (Hiro Asari)]

My Mac has the disk reformatted so that it is case-sensitive (HFS+):

$ touch foo.txt foo.TXT FOO.txt FOO.TXT
$ ls -li foo.* FOO.*                          
286444732 -rw-r--r--  1 asari  staff  0 Jan  6 08:00 FOO.TXT
286444731 -rw-r--r--  1 asari  staff  0 Jan  6 08:00 FOO.txt
286444729 -rw-r--r--  1 asari  staff  0 Jan  6 08:00 foo.TXT
286444728 -rw-r--r--  1 asari  staff  0 Jan  6 08:00 foo.txt

You notice that they are all different files.

In Ruby 2.1.5, Dir.glob("*.TxT") returns an empty array, but in 2.2.0, all of these files are returned:

$ rvm 2.1.5 do ruby -v -e 'p Dir.glob("*.TxT")'
ruby 2.1.5p273 (2014-11-13 revision 48405) [x86_64-darwin14.0]
[]
$ rvm 2.2.0 do ruby -v -e 'p Dir.glob("*.TxT")'
ruby 2.2.0p0 (2014-12-25 revision 49005) [x86_64-darwin13]
["FOO.TXT", "FOO.txt", "foo.TXT", "foo.txt"]

This is unexpected and incorrect. This does not happen on Linux.

[enebo (Thomas Enebo)]

I just told @arsarih some of the horrific details of an environment I worked where they had case-insensitity built into a forked SVN client on a case sensitive filesystem. When people do not expect this behavior it leads to really confusing situations. The most obvious one is a winner is picked (in my example SVN but in this case by Ruby), like FOO.TXT, but that is the not file the user thinks is being loaded, like foo.txt.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Category set to platform/darwin
• Status changed from Open to Feedback
• Backport changed from 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN to 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: REQUIRED

Can you try https://github.com/nobu/ruby/compare/Bug%2310700-OSX-case-folding ?

[hasari (Hiro Asari)]

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

Can you try https://github.com/nobu/ruby/compare/Bug%2310700-OSX-case-folding ?

Confirmed that it works.

$ touch foo.txt foo.TXT FOO.txt FOO.TXT          
$ ls -l foo* FOO*                                
-rw-r--r--  1 asari  staff  0 Jan  7 22:09 FOO.TXT
-rw-r--r--  1 asari  staff  0 Jan  7 22:09 FOO.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 asari  staff  0 Jan  7 22:09 foo.TXT
-rw-r--r--  1 asari  staff  0 Jan  7 22:09 foo.txt
$ ./ruby --disable-gems -v -e 'p Dir.glob("*.TxT")'
ruby 2.3.0dev (2015-01-07 trunk 49171) [x86_64-darwin13]
[]

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Feedback to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset r49178.

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dir.c: OSX case-folding

• dir.c (glob_helper): match in case-folding only if the directory
  resides on a case-insensitve file system, on OSX.
  [ruby-core:67364] [Bug #10700]

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: REQUIRED to 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: DONE

ruby_2_2 r49296 merged revision(s) 49178.