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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: Sun, 4 May 2025 21:22:27 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 03 May 2025 21:08:47 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
>
>> No, its part of the runtime of the C language
>
> It really isn’t. You can trace it through the implementation of execve
> and the Glibc startup, if you want.

Here’s the guts
<https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.14.5/source/fs/exec.c#L1893> of
the kernel code that does the invocation of a new program. You can see
the array of argument strings being passed in there.