Re: parse-namestring and logical pathnames

Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Sep 28, 6:44 pm, Richard M Kreuter <kreu...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Marco Antoniotti <marc...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Besides, lowercasing in Unix is wrong as the file system is case-
sensitive.

Customary case is meant to be whatever lettercase is normally used in
file names on a file system, not whether the file system is
case-preserving or case-insensitive.  The examples in the dictionary
entry for MAKE-PATHNAME shows and the Issue PATHNAME-COMPONENT-CASE
mentions that customary case for Unix is supposed to be lowercase.

Yes. And *that* is wrong (the supposition that customary case for
Unix is lowercase).

On the Unix hosts I've checked, the ratio of all-lowercase directory
entry names to any-uppercase directory entry names is around 5 to 1, and
that all-uppercase directory entry names make up around one
three-thousandth of the total number of names. Isn't that good enough
evidence that filenames are normally lowercase on Unix?

--
Richard
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