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From: std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Guest Moderator, John B. Chambers)
Newsgroups: mod.std.unix
Subject: Re: case sensitive filenames
Message-ID: <6466@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Nov-86 15:01:53 EST
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.6466
Posted: Fri Nov 28 15:01:53 1986
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Organization: IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System for Computer Environments Committee
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>From rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decwrl!amdcad!amd!pesnta!valid!sbs@im4u.UUCP Sun Nov 23 06:32:49 1986
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 86 21:06:10 pst
From: rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decwrl!amd!valid!valid!sbs@im4u.UUCP (Steven Brian McKechnie Sargent)

4.2BSD refuses to namei a file with 8-bit character(s) because that's a good
sign that the directory entry has been thumped.  The super-user is allowed
to namei files with 8-bit characters.

In non-USASCII environments (where 8-bit characters are plausible), this is
bad planning.

S.



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