Re: [PATCH] add stricmp

[Christoph Hellwig]

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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