Originally posted by xfcemint
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You can put it in an application. You list all entries in a path and do a case insensitive search for a file name before you open it.
It's absolutely trivial. You know, there are even handy ages old posix functions for you. strcase*
It's exactly what the kernel will have to do if you do a camelcase name open in a case insensitive mountpoint.
Every application can do it's own case insensitive file search.
But of course that's stupid and pointless. Also not uniform. And that's why it resides in the kernel.
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