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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them
Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 00:44:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2 May 2025 08:45:44 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

> I question the wisdom of Torvalds on this topic since he allowed ext
> filesystems to have an even greater evil than either of those:
> newlines in file names!

He was just following a *nix tradition. I think it’s probably specified in 
POSIX: any byte value is allowed in a file/directory name, except “/” and 
NUL. “/” is the separator between pathname components, and NUL is of 
course the string terminator.

But with Unicode, I can still have filenames with “∕” in them.