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SubjectRe: rename is idiotic (was Re: VFAT rename)
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
>
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