Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

[Alan Cox]

> Users are used to work on characters, not on bytes.

Absolutely true - but completely missing the point.

When I open a UTF-8 file name as displayed by nautilus the kernel does
byte comparisons. The kernel doesn't care what character set is in use.

> > So you either implement "match one byte", or you go crazy. It's that 
> > simple.
> 
> Sure, you can limit what is possible and what not.

If your regexps are reasonably complete you just have to turn the unicode
match into a byte match. That is a user interface problem - in user space.

Alan
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