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Subject: Re: [PATCH] add stricmp
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
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On Iau, 2005-09-08 at 17:45 +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >The only general, usable strnicmp safe for general kernel use would be
> a
> >full all singing all dancing UTF-8 symbol aware arbitary locale
> >implementation. And that we *definitely* do not want in kernel.
> 
> Then you'd want to immediately get rid of the mentioned, pre-exisiting
> strnicmp().

Yes