From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267515AbUBSUAS (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:00:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267516AbUBSUAS (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:00:18 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:165 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267515AbUBSUAN (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:00:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:04:55 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: "H. Peter Anvin" cc: Tridge , Al Viro , Jamie Lokier , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Eureka! (was Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity) In-Reply-To: <40351306.1080207@zytor.com> 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> <40351306.1080207@zytor.com> 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, 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