On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, David O'Brien wrote:

For changes like this to be reasoned because of building FreeBSD on Windows there should consensus. For MacOS X - there is a case sensitive FS.

So I have to reformat my Mac OS X file systems in order to check out FreeBSD source trees on them because the jot(1) regression test relies on having two files in the same directory that differ only in case? :-) No one is saying you should be able to check out FreeBSD source trees using 8.3 DOS filenames, but I think avoiding case collisions makes a lot of sense.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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