Hi, On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: > El 28/8/2007, a las 22:45, Johannes Schindelin escribi?: > > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Wincent Colaiuta wrote: > > > > > Personally, I don't like HFS+ much at all, but your statement that > > > Mac OS X "doesn't even have a case sensitive filesystem" is false. > > > > It is right that they support it. But since the _default_ is case > > insensitive (but only as long as it is not _reporting_ file names), it > > is _as bad_ as "doesn't even have a case sensitive filesystem". No > > sophistry helps here. > > I don't think my correction qualifies as "sophistry" by any reasonable > definition of the word. Andreas claimed that Apple had turned "a > perfectly decent unix-clone such as FreeBSD into some defect monstrosity > that doesn't even have a case sensitive filesystem"; I merely sought to > correct his misstatement. I acknowledged that. But it does not change the _meaning_ of Andreas' criticism. They took a perfectly sane system, and turned it into a mess. Yes, you _can_ change the setting. No, most don't. Yes, the effect is... you guessed it: the same as if they did not allow case sensitivity at all. Plenty of people have this setup, and we have to suffer. Sigh. Hth, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
