2009/139 CIFS CATIA minor update

[Alan.M.Wright]

I don't want to modify the table - that's the translation table that
everyone uses.  The / mapping will have no effect but to omit it
will look strange to customers expecting this particular feature.

It will have no effect on files with ø in their names because this
property serves a single purpose - it is purely to support Catia
v4/v5 interoperability and nothing else.  The only time this
property will ever be used is on shares being used to support a
mixed UNIX/Windows environment in which people are using
Catia V4 on UNIX and Catia V5 on Windows and they are
working on the same files.

There is some history here but the upshot is that there are a lot
of Catia users out there and they use NAS systems (such as the
Amber Road S7000) to solve this particular interoperability
problem.

Alan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jordan Brown" <Jordan.Brown at Sun.COM>
To: <PSARC-ext at sac.sfbay.sun.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:56 PM
Subject: 2009/139 CIFS CATIA minor update


> Bart Smaalders points out that it's pretty difficult for a
> UNIX file name to include a "/".
>
> Amusingly, a Google search found that Sun, IBM, Microsoft, and Samba all
> have documents that include this translation.
>
> However, it's obviously not useful, and it's mildly harmful as
> it will unnecessarily disrupt access to files with ø in their names, so
> it should be removed.
>
> Joyce, I assume that's OK?
>
>