[petsc-users] filename upper case letters

[Jed Brown]

Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Gideon Simpson <gideon.simpson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yup, on an OS X 10.10 machine.
>>
>
> The Mac preserves case, but it matches like case insensitive. Very
> confusing and stupid design in my opinion.

Case-insensitive comparison for Unicode depends on the locale.  Why
anyone would consider putting such crap in a file system is
incomprehensible.


Linus:

  "The true horrors of HFS+ are not in how it's not a great filesystem,
  but in how it's *actively* designed to be a *bad* filesystem by people
  who thought they had good ideas."

https://plus.google.com/+JunioCHamano/posts/1Bpaj3e3Rru
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