Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:14:46 +0000 | From | Steve Underwood <> | Subject | Re: [Call For Wartectomy] CRLF conversion out of kernel |
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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.
Here, here. Most Unixen have FAT support. Most don't do this, and I can't see why Linux should. If you move Unix text files to a Windows machine most Windows apps. are quite happy without the CR. Of course, going the other way is slightly more of a nuisance, but not that much.
Steve
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