Theodore, On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 11:41 PM Theodore Dubois <tbl...@icloud.com> wrote: > > I'm currently hacking on Linux trying to run a sort of UML-style thing on > macOS (please don't question my sanity :), and I've run into various issues > stemming from macOS having a case-insensitive filesystem.
Sounds interesting, if you have questions on UML internals, just ask. > The one you run into immediately is: there are a number of files (mostly in > netfilter) that have different uppercase and lowercase versions. > net/netfilter/xt_DSCP.c and net/netfilter/xt_dscp.c are quite different. Last > I checked, git would pseudo-randomly pick one of these to check out, and then > show the other one as having unstaged changes making it look like the first > one. This causes problems when switching branches. I've worked around this > with a sparse checkout that excludes these files, but it's not great. > > The gitignore also contains the pattern *.s, which excludes *.S as well when > git is ignoring case. > > Is there any interest in fixing these? I fear it is a little more complicated. We have different upper and lower case variants in include/uapi/. If you rename them, existing programs will fail to build. ...which will make users sad and Linus grumpy. -- Thanks, //richard
