Re: fdatasync() error in shred from coreutils-5.2.1 on AIX 5.2

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 11:04:37 -0700
> 
> > What's the harm in leaving the lower case letters in the list?
> > Sure, in some pathological cases, that'd lead to some wasted time
> > on case-insensitive systems, but I don't see any portability problem.
> 
> You're right.  Sorry, somehow I got confused about 8.3 filesystems
> (where the code will rapidly decrease the length to 8 anyway).

Sorry, I don't follow.  I've re-read the whole thread and also the
code in the latest coreutils' shred.c, but I still don't see why 8.3
filesystems are relevant to the letters in nameset[], why Jim thinks
lower-case will cause waste on case-insensitive systems, and why Paul
thinks the code will ``rapidly decrease the length to 8'' on 8+3
systems.  I'm probably missing something, but what?