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Date:   Sun, 8 Dec 2019 21:00:41 -0500
From:   John Stoffel <john@quad.stoffel.home>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>,
        "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] fs: introduce is_dot_dotdot helper for cleanup
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On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 04:38:04AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2019 at 03:41:44AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 07, 2019 at 07:35:48PM +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> > > There exists many similar and duplicate codes to check "." and "..",
> > > so introduce is_dot_dotdot helper to make the code more clean.
> > 
> > Umm...  No objections, in principle, but... you try to say that name
> > (e.g. in a phone conversation) without stuttering ;-/
> > 
> > Any suggestions from native speakers?
> 
> I used "is_dot_or_dotdot" when discussing this patch with my wife verbally.

*thumbs up*  Both for the wife, and the name.  :-)

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