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From: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add stricmp
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:28:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050908162809.GB9623@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1126197433.19834.47.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:37:13PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2005-09-08 at 17:45 +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > >The only general, usable strnicmp safe for general kernel use would be
> > a
> > >full all singing all dancing UTF-8 symbol aware arbitary locale
> > >implementation. And that we *definitely* do not want in kernel.
> > 
> > Then you'd want to immediately get rid of the mentioned, pre-exisiting
> > strnicmp().
> 
> Yes

There is a couple of legitimate uses of that one - mostly in workarounds for
bugs in unrelated programs...  Most of the strnicmp() users should go, though.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-09-08 16:28 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
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 [this message]

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