case sensitive filenames

[Guest Moderator, John B. Chambers]

>From rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decwrl!amdcad!amd!pesnta!valid!sbs at 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 at 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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