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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> Again, as an OSX-only workaround it's probably acceptable, and perhaps 
> that's the only thing to look at right now. But it does strike me as a 
> design mistake to do it at that level.

Yes, we would need a reverse conversion when going from index to
work tree, including entry.c, in order to be able to emulate
this on filesystems that do not take "equivalent" but different
names on open(), creat() and lstat().