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- From: seismo!hpscda!hpdsd!hpda!hpisoa1!davel (Dave Lennert)
- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 86 15:24:20 pdt
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- Perhaps a good approach might be to require POSIX applications to specify
- filenames to the system as all lowercase in order to be truly portable.
- As long as the filenames don't contain *mixed* case then case shifting to
- all lower or all uppper (or leaving case insensitive) on the part of the
- system won't result in name collisions.
-
- A variant on this is to require all hardcoded filenames in applications
- to be lowercase, but filenames supplied by a user could be passed to the
- system unshifted by the application. The user should know the case
- limitations of the underlying system.
-
- However, my preference is to have the POSIX interface support cases
- sensitive filenames. I agree with others that this will not be hard
- to implement given some of the other things that will have to be
- provided.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 39
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