Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:03:03 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity |
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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.
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