Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 06/29/2000 07:24:16
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 06:02:49PM +0900, Noriyuki Soda wrote:

 > Mmmm, case-insensitive filename mattching is very difficult to
 > implement correctly, because a filename comparison rule depends on
 > filesystem.
 > The implementation of a rule requires kernel support. For example,
 > japanese MS-DOS filesystem has a different rule from english MS-DOS
 > filesystem, since japanese MS-DOS uses multibyte codeset for it's
 > filename.
 > 
 > How will we use FNM_CASEFOLD?

Look at how it is used in rpc.bootparamd(8); it essentially replaces
a strcasecmp() there.

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