On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 02:30:13PM -0800, Theodore Dubois 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. > > 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?
<wry> Just how could we fix a long-standing design flaw in macOS? </wry>
