Re: Eureka! (was Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> How about a compomise - super-intelligent complete nincompoop bastard?

Ok, but in the meantime I think I can save face by saying that you only 
need two system calls, by simply making a "lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET)" 
implicitly set the first bit. So then the "set second bit if first is set" 
just becomes a "dcache fill complete" notifier.

So I'll take half credit.

		Linus "super-complete bastard" Torvalds
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