On 9/19/01 11:51 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> John> (HFS and HFS+ are indeed case-insensitive though)
>
> Which they *could* have fixed from the Unix side in the same way that
> MachTen did it..., and I wish they would. In MachTen, each
> case-folded collision on the HFS+ side is handled by adding \0 bytes
> until the names are distinct. The finder has a bit of a mess renaming
> them, but at least you can see them as separate files. And no
> collisions from the Unix side!
>
> So, foo, Foo, and FOO would be stored as "foo" "Foo\0" and "FOO\0\0",
> effectively.
Ick.
> Is there anybody I can write at Apple to beg for this?
If you're going to beg, beg for an actual case-sensitive file system, not an
evil hack on top of HFS+ (the hard link hacking is bad enough ;) Check
lists.apple.com for the relevant mailing list archive(s) to see how this
debate has gone so far.
On 9/19/01 11:49 AM, Robin Houston wrote:
> Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> I'd love to have Darwin there, [...]
>>
>> If someone is willing to pitch in the time and effort, I'd be thrilled
>> to add it to the list.
>
> I'm willing.
My hero! :)
-John
