Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:36:59 +0100 | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add stricmp |
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:28:19PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: > Then how am I supposed to do ASCII-only case-insensitive compares (i.e. > reading config files)?
You're not supposed to read config files in the kernel, nevermind case-insensitive ones. If you want things case-insensitive please stay in the DOS world, thanks.
> The intended user can be seen at > http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?nlkd (and see also my > previous reply to your earlier, similar complaint).
That's not a useful user. It's a big mess that should stay away from the kernel as far as possible.
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