From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add stricmp
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:36:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050908153659.GA11780@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <432074B302000078000244A3@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:28:19PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Then how am I supposed to do ASCII-only case-insensitive compares (i.e.
> reading config files)?
You're not supposed to read config files in the kernel, nevermind
case-insensitive ones. If you want things case-insensitive please stay in
the DOS world, thanks.
> The intended user can be seen at
> http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?nlkd (and see also my
> previous reply to your earlier, similar complaint).
That's not a useful user. It's a big mess that should stay away from the
kernel as far as possible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-08 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-08 15:05 Jan Beulich
2005-09-08 15:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-08 15:28 ` Jan Beulich
2005-09-08 15:36 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-09-08 16:04 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-08 15:45 ` Jan Beulich
2005-09-08 16:37 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-08 16:28 ` viro
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