Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?
Chris Adams
cmadams at hiwaay.net
Tue Mar 8 14:32:28 UTC 2011
Once upon a time, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> said:
> There's no sane reason to have Readme.txt and README.TXT (or
> PayData01.ODT and PAYdata01.odt) as two different files in the same
> dir. Unless user confusion is part of an OS design goal. ;)
That isn't too much of a problem in an ASCII world, but in UTF, trying
to handle case-insensitivity is a royal pain (and has caused security
issues). The OS treats filenames as an opaque string, and that's how it
should be.
--
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
More information about the users
mailing list