On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:09:30 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> > Just wondering how Windows implementation really behaves for its > > 'case-insensitive-comparing" for "\u0131 vs "I". I would assume they > > actually are 2 'distinguished" files? > > I think it depends on the locale. Also it is possible to configure NTFS, on a > per directory basis, to disable the directory the case sensitivity. > WindowsPath.compareTo is where we ended up for JDK 7, it would be good to > validate this. "Support for per-directory case sensitivity began in Windows 10, build 17107." [*] This is handled on the (PowerShell) command line with fsutil.exe file setCaseSensitiveInfo <path> [enable | disable] For the purposes of this request, the `equals` methods operate on the string representation of the abstract pathname and do not interact with the file system. The specification of `File.equals` states On UNIX systems, alphabetic case is significant in comparing pathnames; on Microsoft Windows systems it is not. If it were necessary to account for the directory case sensitivity setting, something like the `NtQueryInformationFile` function would be needed. Changing to case-sensitive would likely break a lot of code. [*] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/case-sensitivity ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25788#issuecomment-3005914556
