Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them

Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> wrote:

c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

Linus ALLOWED long, case/space, sensitive file systems.
>
NOW we're STUCK with them ...  AND all the various downsides.  CAN'T
go back even if it's the better thing.

 
Linux implemented a roughly UNIX compatible OS. And that was the right
thing to do.

Which was my point to Computer Nerd Kevin several replies upthread.

Linus didn't decide himself to "allow newlines" (really to "allow
everything" but ASCII / and ASCII null), he just followed what was
standard practice in the rest of the Unix world.

If someone wants to complain about "X allowed newlines" they likely
need to go way back to Bell Labs and Kernigan and Ritchie and ask them
why they allowed, effectively, any character to be in a filename.