Re: [RFC][PATCHSET v3] non-recursive pathname resolution & RCU symlinks

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu May 14 2015 - 19:37:07 EST


On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 04:24:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So ASCII-only case-insensitivity is sufficient for you guys?
>
> Doing case-insensitive lookups at a vfs layer level wouldn't be
> impossible (add some new lookup flag, so it would *not* be
> per-filesystem, it would be per-operation!),

ENOPARSE. Either two names are equivalent or they are not; it's not a
per-operation thing. What do you mean?
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