Re: [PATCH 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64] idmapd.c: deactivate the ASCII characters check

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Hey,

On 02/29/2012 04:38 PM, Jim Rees wrote:
> Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
>   On 02/23/2012 04:16 AM, Gregor Gruener wrote:
>   > Customers are using Unicode characters umlauts (ö,ä,ü) in group names and this
>   > creates problems with NFS ID Mapping. Groups with umlauts will be redirected to
>   > the group NFS "nobody".
>   > This patch deactivate the ASCII characters check. It's maybe more like a temporary fix and I think it would be nicer to
>   > adjust the check to support Unicode characters instead to deactivate the check.
>   > Signed-off-by: Gregor Gruener<ggruner@xxxxxxxxxx>
>   ...
>   Committed... 
> 
> I still think the name should be changed.  The only thing validateascii() is
> doing now is verifying that the string is null terminated.
Sorry Jim...  I kinda overlooked that part of the discussion... 
I guess validateascii() is not a published interface so we
could change it... any suggestions? (Patches always welcome! ;-) )

steved. 
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