From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932593AbVIHPhB (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:37:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932597AbVIHPhB (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:37:01 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:8340 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932593AbVIHPhA (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:37:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:36:59 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jan Beulich Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add stricmp Message-ID: <20050908153659.GA11780@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jan Beulich , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <43206F420200007800024455@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com> <20050908151754.GB11067@infradead.org> <432074B302000078000244A3@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <432074B302000078000244A3@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:28:19PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: > Then how am I supposed to do ASCII-only case-insensitive compares (i.e. > reading config files)? You're not supposed to read config files in the kernel, nevermind case-insensitive ones. If you want things case-insensitive please stay in the DOS world, thanks. > The intended user can be seen at > http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?nlkd (and see also my > previous reply to your earlier, similar complaint). That's not a useful user. It's a big mess that should stay away from the kernel as far as possible.