IO assumes there are only two OSes: Windows and Unix
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Key: IO-171
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-171
Project: Commons IO
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Sebb
Priority: Minor
Just noticed that IO assumes systems are either:
Windows-like:
* File.separatorChar = \
* Case-insensitive matching
or
Unix-like:
* File.separatorChar = /
* Case-sensitive matching
It may well be true that there are only two different file sepator characters,
but it is not true that all non-Windows systems use case-sensitive matching.
For example, OpenVMS uses a file separator char of /, but originally only
supported case-insensitive file names (always shown as uppercase).
Current versions of OpenVMS support both upper and lower-case; the default is
to use case-insenstive matching (and upper case names).
Perhaps the IOCase.SYSTEM constant needs to have an "Unknown" or "Variable"
setting for this; it would then be an error to use IOCase.SYSTEM to determine
the case sensitivity.
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