Re: features suggestion

Hummm... That's a good point, however, I would like to know, as long as the
kernel where is leaded to, there would be any problem that a userspace
program saw the localized name instead of the original?

--Sergio
El 26/3/2015 19:54, "Hisham" <[email protected]> escribió:

> On 24 March 2015 at 15:34, Jean-Roch Huet <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > With the 64 bits improvment,
> >
> > Could it be possible to create two functions in the kernel module :
> >
> > GoboFolderDisplayName $path $displayname
> >
> > And GoboFileDisplayName ?
> >
> > 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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