Huh, strange! I'm on:

ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0]
File System :   Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Mac OS X 10.6.5

New shell doesn't help either.

Hmm....


On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Heya Chris
>
> Both of your lowercase examples return /Users... for me. What version of Ruby 
> are you running? And what filesystem are you using for your hard drive?
>
> --
> Pat
>
> On 16/01/2011, at 10:59 PM, Chris Berkhout wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Today I was surprised to find that the "U" in Users is uppercase
>> (which I consider correct) in:
>>
>> Etc.getpwuid.dir => "/Users/chrisberkhout"
>> Dir.entries("/") => [..., "Users", ...]
>> ENV['PWD']       => "/Users/chrisberkhout"
>>
>> But lowercase in:
>>
>> Dir.pwd               => "/users/chrisberkhout"
>> File.expand_path('.') => "/users/chrisberkhout"
>>
>> Also,
>> - Manually changing into the uppercase directory doesn't help.
>> - Deeper directories with uppercase letters seem fine.
>> - Other root-level directories with uppercase letters seem fine.
>>
>> Anyone else run into this issue?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
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