>
> Alexander Viro writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Obvious reason: compatibility.
What compatibillity? We still need to deal with the transtion manually if
we download text files. Unless you want to try detecting text files on
download. IMO it will get more ugly as you keep trying to automate it.
Gerhard
-- gmack@imag.netAs a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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