Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 07/05/2025 22:41, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

(Strings with nulls in are another matter, but not relevant to
filenames in Unix filesystems, and AFAIK not common anywhere
either.)
 

 
Well again, how do you process a Jpeg read into a program?  Or a raw
disc sector, or a stream of comms containing binary data?

By using an array of bytes, not a C "string".

Ultimately C strings are not, unlike left wing 'progressive' politics,
or PASCAL types, something that is imposed on you. You have the choice.

But, a "C string" /is/ a byte array where ASCII null is 'special' in
that it denotes "end of string".  Which is why a C string is the wrong
C type to use for a Jpeg, a raw disk sector, or a stream of comms
containing binary data.