Re: [PATCH] fat: Refactor shortname parsing

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Mon Jul 02 2012 - 11:11:19 EST


"Steven J. Magnani" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 23:36 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>> "Steven J. Magnani" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > True, but with the change you suggest we lose the incrementing of 'i',
>> > which likely would cause an infinite loop for 1:1 Unicode conversions.
>>
>> You meant, we just have to do
>>
>> if (!is_vfat)
>> ptname[i] = ...;
>> i++;
>>
>> or something? I still feel this looks better to indicate, we don't use
>> ptname in the case of vfat.
>
> I can change it, but there are other places in that function where
> ptname is used that are not qualified with !is_vfat, so I don't know
> whether this improves clarity or reduces it.
>
> I do think fat_tolower() should not be making decisions. IMHO the
> trigraph and a comment, perhaps before the vfat-only reassignment of
> 'name', would be clearer.

Hm, the primary case is vfat. fat_tolower()/hidden is required only for
msdos, and ptname too. So, my suggestion is trying to keep vfat case
clean.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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