From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267506AbUBSTui (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:50:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267508AbUBSTuh (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:50:37 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:38411 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267506AbUBSTtP (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:49:15 -0500 Message-ID: <40351306.1080207@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:48:22 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031030 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Tridge , Al Viro , Jamie Lokier , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Eureka! (was Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity) References: <16435.60448.70856.791580@samba.org> <16435.61622.732939.135127@samba.org> <20040219081027.GB4113@mail.shareable.org> <20040219163838.GC2308@mail.shareable.org> <20040219182948.GA3414@mail.shareable.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>Basic approach: add two bits to the VFS dentry flags. That's all that is >>needed. Then you have two new system calls: > > ^^^ > >> - set_bit_one(dirfd) >> - set_bit_two_if_one_is_set(dirfd); >> - check_or_create_name(dirfd, name, case_table_pointer, newfd); > > > [ deletia ] > > >>Am I a super-intelligent bastard, or am I a complete nincompoop? You >>decide. > > > I think my lack of counting ability basically answers that question. > > Damn. > How about a compomise - super-intelligent complete nincompoop bastard? [:^) -hpa