On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 07:19 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > If one implementation does case insensitive, it will most likely just work, > because people do not make insane names differing only in case on purpose. Apple did :-) ide, vs IDE, ata vs ATA, I've seen all sort of crap there, esp. on old machines. > Now people write other things that they only test against that implementation, > and those things now only work with case-insensitive. And you do not know > without testing if anything breaks. (But the laws of big numbers are against > you here). Since there isn't really a drawback to doing case-insensitive > always, that is a much safer way forward, much less work for everyone, even > if technically the wrong thing to do :-) > > > Segher
