[bug #32976] find has no option to ignore case of starting directories

[James Youngman]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #32976 (project findutils):

I don't really see these as being inconsistent; /some/path/some-basename is a
path name, and the named file either exists or it doesn't.   

The tests implemented by find (such as -iname) are essentially a query
language allowing the user to specify which files they would like to see in
the results.

These are, in my conception of things at least, different concepts.  

If /foo/ is a case-insensitive file system, then surely "find /foo/BAR" and
"find /foo/bar" should produce similar results.  Identical in fact, apart from
the case of "BAR" in the output.   I believe this should already be happening
(or am I wrong?).

On the other hand, if /foo/ is a case-sensitive file system, /foo/BAR and
/foo/bar are distinct names; zero, one or both of these files may exist, and
find will corrrectly treat these as distinct.

TL;DR: Start points are treated case-insensitively if they exist on a
case-insensitive file system, and case-sentively if they exist on a
case-sensitive file system.

Did I misunderstand something?   Please correct me if I did.
 

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