[PATCH] cifs: Add new mount parm mapchars

For handling seven special characters that shells use for filenames.

This first parts implements conversions from Unicode. 

Signed-off-by: Steve French
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/TODO b/fs/cifs/TODO
index f4e3e1f67ee4..a69227415a73 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/TODO
+++ b/fs/cifs/TODO
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-version 1.22 July 30, 2004 
+version 1.32 April 3, 2005
 
 A Partial List of Missing Features
 ==================================
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ b) Better pam/winbind integration (e.g. to handle uid mapping
 better)
 
 c) multi-user mounts - multiplexed sessionsetups over single vc
-(ie tcp session) - prettying up needed, and more testing needed
+(ie tcp session) - more testing needed
 
 d) Kerberos/SPNEGO session setup support - (started)
 
@@ -67,12 +67,15 @@ q) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs
 
 r) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount)
 
-KNOWN BUGS (updated December 10, 2004)
+KNOWN BUGS (updated April 3, 2005)
 ====================================
+See http://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for
+current bug list.
+
 1) existing symbolic links (Windows reparse points) are recognized but
 can not be created remotely. They are implemented for Samba and those that
-support the CIFS Unix extensions but Samba has a bug currently handling
-symlink text beginning with slash
+support the CIFS Unix extensions, although earlier versions of Samba
+overly restrict the pathnames.
 2) follow_link and readdir code does not follow dfs junctions
 but recognizes them
 3) create of new files to FAT partitions on Windows servers can
@@ -98,7 +101,5 @@ there are some easy changes that can be done to parallelize sequential writes,
 and when signing is disabled to request larger read sizes (larger than 
 negotiated size) and send larger write sizes to modern servers.
 
-4) More exhaustively test the recently added NT4 support against various
-NT4 service pack levels, and fix cifs_setattr for setting file times and 
-size to fall back to level 1 when error invalid level returned.
-
+4) More exhaustively test against less common servers.  More testing
+against Windows 9x, Windows ME servers.