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> but it makes no sense whatsoever that different identities should be mapped/translated to mean the same.. Doesn't Linux/Unix already have such ambiguity? E.g
by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
> but it makes no sense whatsoever that different identities should be mapped/translated to mean the same..
Doesn't Linux/Unix already have such ambiguity? E.g., multiple hard links to the same file; symbolic links; etc.?
- bartvanH 6y agoYes, but then they have been made explicitly and they show up in a directory listing. If you would make the filesystem case insensitive ls would only show a.txt, but suddenly a "virtual" A.txt a.Txt etc would also exist. Now there are some folders on my machine that i would like to be case insensitive like ~/Downloads, never having to check if i downloaded distro.iso or Distro.iso would be nice. But i can see so many more problems with files i did not expect to exist and not showing up in my directory listing suddenly being there when i open something "else".