Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity
viro_at_parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Date: 02/17/04
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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:17:30 +0000 To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:10:23PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I do believe we'd need to have some way to "refresh" the fd in your
> example, without restarting the whole lookup. So that when the user gets
> EFOAD, it can do
>
> refresh(fd);
lseek(fd, 0, 0);
> > And we really don't want to encourage those who port Windows userland in
> > not fixing the idiotic semantics. As for Lindows... let's just say that
> > I can't find any way to describe what I really think of those clowns, their
> > intellect and their morals that wouldn't lead to a lawsuit from them.
>
> Heh.
>
> I suspect most people don't care that much, but I also suspect that
> projects like samba have to have a "anal mode" where they really act like
> Windows, even when it's "wrong". People can then choose to say "screw that
> idiocy", but by just _having_ a very compatible mode you deflect a lot of
> criticism. Regardless of whether people want the anal mode or not in real
> life.
Umm... Samba deals with Windows clients. Windows software allegedly being
ported to Linux is a different story and in that case there's no excuse for
demanding case-insensitive operations.
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