Re: [Bug 298254] FreeBSD tmpfs case-insensitive support

Hey Eike,

You may want to post this on the bug.
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Best,
Alex, on behalf of bugmeister@

On 2026-09-17 20:16 -04:00 EDT, "Eike Dierks" <eike@dierks.dev> wrote:
> There have been a lot of discussions
> around this topic.
> 
> Linus decided it:
> There should be *NO* conversion,
> of the names in the filesystem layer.
> 
> The names should be used without *ANY* conversion.
> It should be the original bytes of the argument as provided.
> 
> This was not stated in posix,
> but this is now how Linux works.
> 
> Or to rewind it:
> we do not manipulate arguments in the kernel.