Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!std-unix 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 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Nov-86 20:32:33 EST References: <5860@ut-sally.UUCP>, <6107@ut-sally.UUCP> Organization: IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System for Computer Environments Committee Lines: 16 Approved: jbc@sally.utexas.edu >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. Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 61