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  • Committer: Robert Collins
  • Date: 2010-07-04 06:22:11 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 5332.
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``bzrlib.lsprof.profile`` will no longer silently generate bad threaded
profiles when concurrent profile requests are made. Instead the profile
requests will be serialised. Reentrant requests will now deadlock.
(Robert Collins)

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For example, the FAT32 file-system is most commonly found on Windows operating
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systems, and has the characteristics usually associated with a Windows
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file-system.  However, USB devices means FAT32 file-systems are often used
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with Linux, so the current operating system doesn't necessarily reflect the
 
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with GNU/Linux systems, so the current operating system doesn't necessarily reflect the
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capabilities of the file-system.
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Bazaar supports 3 kinds of file-systems, each to different degrees.
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* Case-sensitive file-systems: This is the file-system generally used on
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  Linux - 2 files can differ only by case, and the exact case must be used
 
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  GNU/Linux: 2 files can differ only by case, and the exact case must be used
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  when opening a file.
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* Case-insensitive, case-preserving (cicp) file-systems: This is the