Torvalds on case-insensitive file-systems

“Dammit. Case sensitivity is a BUG. The fact that filesystem people still think it’s a feature, I cannot understand. It’s like they revere the old FAT filesystem so much that they have to recreate it – badly.

Hint: ❤ and ❤️ are two unicode characters that differ only in ignorable code points. And guess what? The cray-cray incompetent people who want those two to compare the same will then also have other random – and perhaps security-sensitive – files compare the same, just because they have ignorable code points in them.”

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjajMJyoTv2KZdpVRoPn0LFZ94Loci37WLVXmMxDbLOjg@mail.gmail.com/


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