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Message-ID: <20150514233632.GG7232@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 00:36:32 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeremy Allison <jra@...ba.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHSET v3] non-recursive pathname resolution & RCU
symlinks
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 04:24:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So ASCII-only case-insensitivity is sufficient for you guys?
>
> Doing case-insensitive lookups at a vfs layer level wouldn't be
> impossible (add some new lookup flag, so it would *not* be
> per-filesystem, it would be per-operation!),
ENOPARSE. Either two names are equivalent or they are not; it's not a
per-operation thing. What do you mean?
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