Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Thu, 1 May 2025 13:42:36 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

But spaces in filenames cause me *far more* headaches.  They are the
greater evil.

 
The real evil was the mishmash of DOS and Windows that wound up with
'Program Files' becoming 'progra~1'.

I question the wisdom of Torvalds on this topic since he allowed
ext filesystems to have an even greater evil than either of those:
newlines in file names! Imagine if the average joe were exposed
to that capability - we'd have multi-paragraph file names to deal
with all over the place.

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