Re: Eureka! (was Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity)

Linus Torvalds
2004-02-19T20:00:18Z

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> How about a compomise - super-intelligent complete nincompoop bastard?

Ok, but in the meantime I think I can save face by saying that you only
need two system calls, by simply making a "lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET)"
implicitly set the first bit. So then the "set second bit if first is set"
just becomes a "dcache fill complete" notifier.

So I'll take half credit.

Linus "super-complete bastard" Torvalds