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Re:macOS 13.5 no longer allows setting system wide ulimits by mnd999 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @08:25AM (#37234792)
NTFS does support case internally.
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Re:macOS 13.5 no longer allows setting system wide ulimits by thfuran on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @08:34AM (#37234885)
And windows now supports longer paths, but I think it's still disabled by default (and I'm sure there's a bunch of legacy software that is still using old APIs and can't support long paths anyways).
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Re:macOS 13.5 no longer allows setting system wide ulimits by mort96 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @08:47AM (#37234987)
Windows Explorer itself is an example of such "legacy software".
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Re:macOS 13.5 no longer allows setting system wide ulimits by nullindividual on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @08:51AM (#37235036)
The limit was with Win32. It’s not a “legacy” API, but it is as old as NT. There are some applications which do not use the MAX_PATH constant, such as Office (probably one of the few rate examples; Office apps have some horrid hacks like this and how they paint their menu bar).

Case sensitivity will break certain applications.

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