Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Aug 1997 08:35:57 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Msdos name alias patch for 2.1.48 |
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On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The thing that makes me think that having the VFS layer handle > case-insenstitivity (but nothing else) is a good idea is that it can > potentially be useful even for things like ext2fs. Imagine having not to > worry about case in DOSEMU or Wine, but instead doing > > int fd = open("/dosc/windows/windows.ini", O_NOCASE | O_RDONLY); > > and it would work even if it was a ext2 filesystem?
hm, another thing we didnt think of so far: all these 'cross-lookup-system' tools have to convert '\' to '/' anyway. So we could well say 'hey if you convert, do it right!'. _Or_ we have to handle '\' too ... *ducking down*
-- mingo
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