Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:43:10 +0100 | From | "Manuel J. Galan" <> | Subject | Re: [Call For Wartectomy] CRLF conversion out of kernel |
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DIE, bloat DIE!!!
Alexander Viro wrote: > > JarJar Binks^W^WSupport for CRLF<->LF translation in the kernel > must die. Unless somebody has damn good reasons for preserving this > bogosity I'm going to exterminate the bloody thing. It is guilty in: > a) breaking mmap() semantics. > b) breaking lseek() semantics. > c) breaking write() semantics. > d) being bloody slow, painful and kludgy. > e) making FAT support with the new page cache hard. > f) confusing the hell of unaware victims^Wusers. > g) bringing the list of magical filename extensions into the kernel. > h) belonging to userland *and* being already implemented there. > If somebody has really convincing arguments for preserving the sucker - > tell. Otherwise it will die. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/begin:vcard n:Galan Moreno;Manuel x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:E.T.S. de Arquitectura (ULPGC);Matematicas adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:manolow@step.es x-mozilla-cpt:;1056 fn:Manuel Galan Moreno end:vcard
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