From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] XFS: Unicode case-insensitive lookup implementation Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:20:59 +1000 Message-ID: <20080403222059.GU103491721@sgi.com> References: <20080402062508.017738664@chook.melbourne.sgi.com> <20080402062709.011126702@chook.melbourne.sgi.com> <20080403171450.GB22385@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Barry Naujok , xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:38999 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757467AbYDCWVO (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Apr 2008 18:21:14 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080403171450.GB22385@infradead.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 01:14:50PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Validating file names is not the filesystem job. In fact it's utterly > stupid, a unix filename is a sequence of bytes without special meaning > except for ., .., / and \0 So you're suggesting that we should rely on userspace being bug free and always only using valid unicode sequences in it's names? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group