Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity

viro
2004-02-17T20:17:36Z

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:10:23PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I do believe we'd need to have some way to "refresh" the fd in your
> example, without restarting the whole lookup. So that when the user gets
> EFOAD, it can do
>
> refresh(fd);

lseek(fd, 0, 0);

> > And we really don't want to encourage those who port Windows userland in
> > not fixing the idiotic semantics. As for Lindows... let's just say that
> > I can't find any way to describe what I really think of those clowns, their
> > intellect and their morals that wouldn't lead to a lawsuit from them.
>
> Heh.
>
> I suspect most people don't care that much, but I also suspect that
> projects like samba have to have a "anal mode" where they really act like
> Windows, even when it's "wrong". People can then choose to say "screw that
> idiocy", but by just _having_ a very compatible mode you deflect a lot of
> criticism. Regardless of whether people want the anal mode or not in real
> life.

Umm... Samba deals with Windows clients. Windows software allegedly being
ported to Linux is a different story and in that case there's no excuse for
demanding case-insensitive operations.