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- From: papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD (long)
- Message-ID: <Bxw2G2.E5o@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <sf0Rr2q00iUy4_zx4l@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov12.231311.19926@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:50:24 GMT
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- >
- > It isn't a question of preservation of case sensetivity; it is a
- >question of teaching the kernel about case insensetivity. Right now,
- >the kernel doesn't know anything about the character set you (or
- >anyone else on the system) is using; all it knows about are two
- >special 8-bit blobs, one for 'end of filepath' and another for
- >'filepath sepperator'. If you teach it about case insensetivity,
- >it is now working in whatever character set you chose, and people
- >who wish to use it with other ones are out of luck.
-
- Am I to understand that unix file management is in the "kernel" and can
- not be intercepted before and after kernel operations? Even DOS seperates
- the file system and kernel enough that you can use stacker or something
- between the files system and the kernel.
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