One can choose whether one's new filesystem is case-sensitive when one initializes it with Disk Utility.
I don't recall when they added case-sensitivity but it was sometime around tiger or leopard. While the C programming language is defined to be case-sensitive, I don't think UNIX enforces that definition. It depends on the filesystem - consider mounting an 8.3 FAT floppy. Michael David Crawford [email protected] http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Lawrence Velázquez <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 16, 2014, at 8:56 PM, Jim Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > >> And, case-sensitive vs case-insensitive? That debate doesn't apply on >> Unix systems---it's always case-sensitive. If I create two directories, >> foo and Foo, they are different directories, and I know, from decades of >> working with various Unix systems, that I am perfectly safe if I do a >> rm -rf on one, as it will NOT touch the other. The same goes for files. > > This is demonstrably false. I don't know whether the classic UFS was > case-sensitive, but the HFS+ that every Mac comes pre-formatted with is most > decidedly case-insensitive. > > % mkdir foo > % mkdir Foo > mkdir: Foo: File exists > % stat foo > 16777217 50608286 drwxr-xr-x 2 larryv staff 0 68 "Oct 17 01:23:10 2014" > "Oct 17 01:23:10 2014" "Oct 17 01:23:10 2014" "Oct 17 01:23:10 2014" 4096 0 0 > foo > % stat Foo > 16777217 50608286 drwxr-xr-x 2 larryv staff 0 68 "Oct 17 01:23:10 2014" > "Oct 17 01:23:10 2014" "Oct 17 01:23:10 2014" "Oct 17 01:23:10 2014" 4096 0 0 > Foo > % rmdir Foo > % rmdir foo > rmdir: foo: No such file or directory > % > > vq > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
