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drop_exists() is case-sensitive #176

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dholstius opened this issue Jan 6, 2020 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #177

dholstius commented Jan 6, 2020

drop_exists() is case-sensitive. This means that it will incorrectly return FALSE in the following scenario:

Alice creates (in her Dropbox) a file named /Foo/bar/baz.txt.
Alice shares /Foo/ with Bob.
Bob renames (on his filesystem) the subfolder bar/ to Bar/.
Bob invokes drop_exists("/Foo/Bar/baz.txt"), expecting the result to be TRUE.

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make drop_exists() case-insensitive #177

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J-Moravec commented Jan 11, 2024

Wouldn't case insensitive mean that the following scenario will be incorrect?

On a case-sensitive system (i.e., Linux):

Alice creates in her Dropbox) a file named /Foo/bar/baz.txt
Bob checks if /Foo/bar/BAZ.txt exists. After your fix, the return will be TRUE.
Bob tries to read /Foo/Bar/BAZ.txt using R (such as with readLines().
Operation fails, Bob is bamboozled.

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