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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:15:28 +0200
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On 30.04.2025 09:45, David Brown wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Linus Torvalds has just had one of his famous rants in reference to
> case-insensitive options for Bcachefs :
> 
> [link snipped]

That reminds be some statements that Arnold Robbins mentioned about
GNU Awk's 'IGNORECASE' feature. First he reported how many troubles
that feature inflicted; it had to be considered in a lot of contexts
and meant a special handling in several places, and that it was an
extreme effort to get it work right and consistently. And I think he
also considered removing that feature (but it's a long existing one,
so...). And, where it's "needed", it's usually also trivial to just
work around it without 'IGNORECASE'.

It makes no sense, IMO, to try to stay sort of "compatible" with
case-insensitive file-systems.

Janis

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