Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 May 1999 21:50:54 +0200 (MEST) | From | kees <> | Subject | Re: rename is idiotic (was Re: VFAT rename) |
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Case sensitivity is one of the 'features' of *nix I like and use very much. :-)) I don't want to miss it for a second. Kees
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Johan Myréen wrote:
> "R. Kelley Cook" wrote: > > > Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but > > insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not > > matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for > > interpreting words in any human language. Capitalization should be for > > prettiness only. > > > If it is so fundamentally broken, then why has no-one using all of those > > others OSes ever run into a problem with case-preserving file names. > > Things get hairy when you have to deal with different character sets and > locales. Should "bl}b{r" and "BL]B[R" be regarded as the same file? > > Converting an upper case alphabetic character to the corresponding lower case > character is not as simple as adding 0x20 to it, except if you are using only > 7-bit ASCII. > > NTFS carries a per-filesystem Upcase Table to map between lower and upper case > alphabetic characters. > > Case sensitivity is a simple and efficient way of avoiding the can of worms. > > Johan Myréen > jem@iki.fi > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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