Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:14:27 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>Well, we don't want to support a bunch of hacks to make it behave like >>Windows if what Windows does doesn't make sense. > > > I'd disagree, for a very simple reason: case-insensitivity itself simply > does not make sense, so the _only_ reason for having a bunch of hacks is > literally to support windows file exports and nothing else. > > I obviously agree with the fact that we should _not_ put those hacks into > the VFS layer proper - we should keep them as a separate thing, and we > should make it clear that it makes no sense _except_ for Windows > compatibility. > > Think of it as nothing more than a binary compatibility layer, the same > way we have hooks to support "lcall 7,0" for binary compatibility with > some silly (and much less interesting) x86 OSes through external modules. >
Well, this is also true :) I still say it belongs in userspace.
For 100% bug-compatibility with Windows, though, it is probably worthwhile to have the filename in the native filesystem be not what a Windows user would see, but rather the normalized filename. That makes a userspace implementation much easier.
-hpa
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