From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Roberts Subject: Re: [0/5] xtables: phase out case sensitivity Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:37:28 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4D35BCC7.90805@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: Netfilter Developer Mailing List Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:56257 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752680Ab1ARRhc (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:37:32 -0500 Received: by bwz15 with SMTP id 15so3599543bwz.19 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:37:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D35BCC7.90805@trash.net> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Patrick McHardy wrote: > On 18.01.2011 16:38, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> bug report http://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694 , though >> being written in a heated fashion, did prompt me to revisit the >> actual issue. While I have to question why users are relying on >> inferior filesystems (the issue was raised before on the lists), I >> feel inclined to solve bugs. > > Well, I don't see any benefit in causing so much churn just for > *one* user, who has been feeling unhappy about his scripts not > working properly. It is a lot of churn, but it might be more than scripts. I've had occaison to check out code on case-insensitive filesystems for the purpose of reading it (Apple's and MS's), and had the checked files trash each other because the file system considers the names to be the same. Its annoying, even if it is the filesystem's fault. Though not recently, not netfilter, and not with git. Cheers, Sam