From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267513AbUBSTrj (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:47:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267514AbUBSTrh (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:47:37 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:22682 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267513AbUBSTrL (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:47:11 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:51:56 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Tridge , Al Viro cc: Jamie Lokier , "H. Peter Anvin" , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Eureka! (was Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <16435.60448.70856.791580@samba.org> <16435.61622.732939.135127@samba.org> <20040219081027.GB4113@mail.shareable.org> <20040219163838.GC2308@mail.shareable.org> <20040219182948.GA3414@mail.shareable.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Basic approach: add two bits to the VFS dentry flags. That's all that is > needed. Then you have two new system calls: ^^^ > - set_bit_one(dirfd) > - set_bit_two_if_one_is_set(dirfd); > - check_or_create_name(dirfd, name, case_table_pointer, newfd); [ deletia ] > Am I a super-intelligent bastard, or am I a complete nincompoop? You > decide. I think my lack of counting ability basically answers that question. Damn. Linus "complete nincompoop" Torvalds