Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

On 2 May 2025 08:45:44 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

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!

He was just following a *nix tradition. I think it’s probably specified in
POSIX: any byte value is allowed in a file/directory name, except “/” and
NUL. “/” is the separator between pathname components, and NUL is of
course the string terminator.

But with Unicode, I can still have filenames with “∕” in them.