Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:27:06PM +0100, Tony Finch
wrote:
> Why yes, of course it makes sense to prompt me for a passowrd for every
> picture on the page!
>
> http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/people/
I don't know that the English language has a word for hateful
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:27:06PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> Why yes, of course it makes sense to prompt me for a passowrd for every
> picture on the page!
>
> http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/people/
Impressively hateful. Wow.
Smylers wrote:
So if I have a file called INSTALL then I can (probably) open it as
install to edit it. But then if I save it as install, the very name I
opened it as, it'll create a separate file with that exact name rather
than overwriting the one I opened? That sounds pretty hateful.
You'r
Why yes, of course it makes sense to prompt me for a passowrd for every
picture on the page!
http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/people/
Tony.
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Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2008-04-29, at 05:40, num...@deathwyrm.com wrote:
How do you know the current locale?
In Linux, at least, I know the kernel is somewhat locale-aware.
The program opening the file might not even be on the same computer as
the file system.
True. That would confuse the i
num...@deathwyrm.com writes:
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > > So are "install" and "INSTALL" the same file? What about
> > > "ınstall" and "İNSTALL"? Does it matter what locale you're in?
> > > How about german "ß" and "SS"?
> >
> > I agree. The filesystem should not attempt to change names. Are
On 2008-04-29, at 05:40, num...@deathwyrm.com wrote:
I'm not saying I would implement a filesystem case-insensitive. But
if I did, I'd do it by storing filenames verbatim. On retrieval,
I'd loop over files for an exact match first. Failing that, I'd
loop over again and call the current local
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
So are "install" and "INSTALL" the same file? What about "ınstall" and
"İNSTALL"? Does it matter what locale you're in? How about german "ß" and
"SS"?
I agree. The filesystem should not attempt to change names. Are "cafe" and
"café" the same word? The Englishman says ye
