WebAssembly / WebAssembly/WASI
case-sensitivity of filesystem apis
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Description
I think it would be a good idea to standardise on if the file-system APIs should be case-sensitive or not and to what extent implementations should enforce case-sensitive/insensitive file-system access on common platforms such as Linux or Windows.
See https://github.com/CraneStation/wasmtime/pull/235#issuecomment-518897502 for some ideas.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Begin with the issue text and the linked Wasmtime pull-request comment (#235); identify the filesystem API behaviors and platform differences the proposal must cover. Done means an agreed case-sensitivity policy for WASI filesystem APIs and a clear enforcement or compatibility plan for Linux and Windows.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux, wasm
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100