[Call For Wartectomy] CRLF conversion out of kernel
Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 09:21:26 -0400 (EDT)
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.
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