Re: [PATCH] fat: Refactor shortname parsing

From: Steven J. Magnani
Date: Mon Jul 02 2012 - 10:45:41 EST


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.

Steve


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