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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] OCFS2
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:20:08 -0400
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On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 06:26 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Zero terminated strings for lock names is bad taste.  It generates a bunch of 
> > useless strlen executions and you force an ascii namespace for no apparent 
> > reason.  Add a 9th parameter, namelen, to the lock call maybe?
> 
> What's wrong with ascii strings?
> 
> We call those 'UTF8' these days.

I think you just answered your own question.

Lee