From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: shaggy@austin.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] JFS: sane file name handling (0 of 2)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:44:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040212144428.05b16695.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402122056.i1CKut1t006255@kleikamp.dyn.webahead.ibm.com>
shaggy@austin.ibm.com wrote:
>
> Please apply the following patches to -mm. The first is just a cleanup, but
> the second one changes the default translation of filenames into unicode.
>
> There have been several complaints about the way that JFS tries to interpret
> the character set of the file names rather than just treating them as strings
> of bytes. This patch makes the default behavior the "string of bytes"
> treatment, while still allowing the charset-specific behavior with the
> iocharset mount option.
>
> I don't believe it will cause anyone too much trouble, but it should probably
> spend a little time in -mm before hitting the mainline.
Sure. Please send them on to Linus as a bk pull when you're happy with them.
> # Due to its roots in OS/2, JFS has always tried to convert pathnames
> # into unicode.
No..... It came from UnixWare. I know - I read it on the internet.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-12 22:42 UTC|newest]
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2004-02-12 20:56 shaggy
2004-02-12 22:44 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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