Re: [PATCH] add stricmp

[viro]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:37:13PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2005-09-08 at 17:45 +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > >The only general, usable strnicmp safe for general kernel use would be
> > a
> > >full all singing all dancing UTF-8 symbol aware arbitary locale
> > >implementation. And that we *definitely* do not want in kernel.
> > 
> > Then you'd want to immediately get rid of the mentioned, pre-exisiting
> > strnicmp().
> 
> Yes

There is a couple of legitimate uses of that one - mostly in workarounds for
bugs in unrelated programs...  Most of the strnicmp() users should go, though.
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