Re: features suggestion

Hisham <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.gobo.general
Message-ID <CAJpkDYcv9xFduu-Dj4F7bUSBVKyjXLVyLqsQYxbgopOy-XKmMg@mail.gmail.com>
On 24 March 2015 at 15:34, Jean-Roch Huet <[email protected]> wrote:
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> With the 64 bits improvment,
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> Could it be possible to create two functions in the kernel module :
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> GoboFolderDisplayName $path $displayname
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> And GoboFileDisplayName ?
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> It could be very useful to display localized names for file and folders. The path is the same but the name displayed on the screen change...

Display names are a userspace concept, not a kernel one. The kernel
has no knowledge of when it is serving a name for display consumption
and when it is for low-level FS activities. Userspace code often uses
the same strings for both purposes. For this reason, this feature is
not implementable without essentially reimplementing all userspace
software, so it's not practically doable in a Linux distro.

-- Hisham
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