Sujet : Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 29. Apr 2025, 07:41:53
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:44:08 -0000 (UTC), Lew Pitcher wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:00:14 -0700, John Ames wrote:
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:21:55 +0000 Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
We all should hate case insensitive file systems.
Why?
Apparently, because case folding is hard, and there are edge cases that
have no general case handling.
There is a standardized Unicode algorithm for it, which is what Linux
filesystems (those that support case insensitivity) implement.
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https://www.unicode.org/faq/casemap_charprop.html#casemap>