Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Reece Dunn wrote: >> >> 1. File name representation >> >> For Linux file systems (correct me if I am wrong here), they all store >> the file name as-is. The question here is what happens on >> Windows-based file systems (e.g. NTFS) that are being read on Linux? > > Generally, Linux tries to follow the conventions of the filesystem, so > it's generally case-preserving and case-sensitive (but not normalizing in > any way - the case sensitivity is literally a upcase lookup table, so you > do "upcase(c1) == upcase(c2)" for each UCS-2 character, no combining or > decomposition). s/sensitiv/insensitiv/g -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - 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
