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SubjectRe: [Call For Wartectomy] CRLF conversion out of kernel
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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