> A "file name" is the file's name.  It is a property of a file, like the
> inode or size.  The name exists (or not) regardless of whether we know
> what it is.  
> 
> A "filename" is a syntactic element, the thing itself, a string of
> characters.  It is supplied as input or rendered as output.  

For what it's worth, I agree.

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