Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

[Bodo Eggert]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Nix wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Oct 2005, Bodo Eggert suggested tentatively:

[...]
> >                          and if utf-8 filenames are supposed to be used,
> >    an utf-8 checker rejecting non-canonialized strings will be desirable
> >    to avoid binary trash in filenames or lookalike filenames. The
> >    conversion to the canonialized form should happen outside the kernel.
> 
> Yes. But where? libc? (I can just see Ulrich going for *this*!)

Either there or in a seperate library.

> > b) ACK, I don't think caseless handling of filenames is a good thing,
> >    it would needlessly bloat the kernel by opening a can of worms.
> >    E.g. 'ß' would be converted to 'SS'[0] in German or 'B' in greek.
> 
> ... which means that either you lose per-process locale-dependence
> via LANG et all, or you get the possibility of directories containing
> several files with the same name from some users' POV.
> 
> Neither seems good to me; even though we already have part of this with
> NTFS, we should not inflict it on people needlessly.

ACK, that's my point.

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