2.1.120 strnicmp patch breaks Joliet

Gordon Chaffee (chaffee@cs.berkeley.edu)
Sun, 6 Sep 1998 04:54:32 -0700


The attempt to fix a non-problem in strnicmp in isofs/inode.c has
caused the code to no longer work. The calling code never depended on
the 1/-1 return values, and that was what was presumably fixed. I
notice that reversing just the strnicmp part of the patch was enough
for everything to work again.

I can't see anything wrong with the new code, but I haven't looked
to see if gcc is generating bad code. Compiler is gcc 2.7.2.3.

- Gordon

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