Re: /usr/bin/head is an HTTP 'HEAD' request??

[Scott Anguish]

On Wednesday, April 18, 2001, at 06:30 AM, Paul J. Schinder wrote:

> At 10:28 PM -0500 4/17/01, Ken Williams wrote:
>> Grr, how typical that I'd find the answer right after I post.
>>
>> It's a case-sensitivity problem.  The 'HEAD' file has clobbered the
>> 'head' file.  It looks like that happened when I installed LWP.
>>
>> I guess this needs to be reported to Gisle Aas, or whoever maintains 
>> LWP
>> these days.
>
> Gisle, but I don't see what he's going to do about this.  I've been 
> using HEAD on Unix for a long time, and I'll bet a lot of people have.  
> I'm sure a name change would be a PITA at this point.  Apple's at 
> fault.  I assume there's no actual reason that HFS+ *must* be case 
> insensitive, and certainly no actual reason that *Darwin* is case 
> insensitive.  Having Classic case fold is one thing, but making a Unix 
> do it causes problems just like this.
>
> Personally, the next time I install perl, I'm going to hack 
> hints/darwin.sh so that it no longer winds up in /System/Library and 
> friends, but goes in /usr/local/{lib,bin} (on my UFS partition) where 
> it belongs.
>
        How are you mounting your UFS partition there?