Re: vfat: Broken case-insensitive support for UTF-8

[Pali RohÃr]

On Tuesday 21 January 2020 00:07:01 Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 12:57:45AM +0100, Pali RohÃr wrote:
> > On Monday 20 January 2020 22:46:25 Al Viro wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:40:46PM +0100, Pali RohÃr wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Ok, I did some research. It took me it longer as I thought as lot of
> > > > stuff is undocumented and hard to find all relevant information.
> > > > 
> > > > So... fastfat.sys is using ntos function RtlUpcaseUnicodeString() which
> > > > takes UTF-16 string and returns upper case UTF-16 string. There is no
> > > > mapping table in fastfat.sys driver itself.
> > > 
> > > Er...  Surely it's OK to just tabulate that function on 65536 values
> > > and see how could that be packed into something more compact?
> > 
> > It is OK, but too complicated. That function is in nt kernel. So you
> > need to build a new kernel module and also decide where to put output of
> > that function. It is a long time since I did some nt kernel hacking and
> > nowadays you need to download 10GB+ of Visual Studio code, then addons
> > for building kernel modules, figure out how to write and compile simple
> > kernel module via Visual Studio, write ini install file, try to load it
> > and then you even fail as recent Windows kernels refuse to load kernel
> > modules which are not signed...
> 
> Wait a sec...  From NT userland, on a mounted VFAT:
> 	for all s in single-codepoint strings
> 		open s for append
> 		if failed
> 			print s on stderr, along with error value
> 		write s to the opened file, adding to its tail
> 		close the file
> the for each equivalence class you'll get a single file, with all
> members of that class written to it.  In addition you'll get the
> list of prohibited codepoints.
> 
> Why bother with any kind of kernel modules?  IDGI...

This is a great idea to get FAT equivalence classes. Thank you!

Now I quickly tried it... and it failed. FAT has restriction for number
of files in a directory, so I would have to do it in more clever way,
e.g prepare N directories and then try to create/open file for each
single-point string in every directory until it success or fail in every
one.

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Pali RohÃr
pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx

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