On 11/20/2013 04:25 AM, Garth Bushell wrote:

I'm also quite uneasy on the case insensitive comparison on Windows as the File system NTFS is case sensitive.

No, it's case-preserving.

It's quite possible that you are both right -- possibly the filesystem driver supports foo and FOO in the same directory but the kernel I/O layer prohibits that. Stranger things have happened. (IIRC the behavior might have been intended so that NT could get a "POSIX compliant" stamp of approval -- using a different set of kernel interfaces that don't enforce case insensitive matching.)
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
On 11/20/2013 04:25 AM, Garth Bushell wrote:

I'm also quite uneasy on the case insensitive comparison on Windows as the File system NTFS is case sensitive.

No, it's case-preserving.

It's quite possible that you are both right -- possibly the filesystem driver supports foo and FOO in the same directory but the kernel I/O layer prohibits that. Stranger things have happened. (IIRC the behavior might have been intended so that NT could get a "POSIX compliant" stamp of approval -- using a different set of kernel interfaces that don't enforce case insensitive matching.)

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