Re: update_vm_cache?

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 11 Jul 1999 07:12:21 +0100


On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 01:20:18AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:

> One of the reasons why FAT is badly b0rken is the damn 'text mode'. I.e.
> automagical translation of \r\n to \n and back. It is *wrong*.

Blech! I didn't know it did that (because I never user it).

> IMO such thing has no place in the kernel...

So let's kill it. We're in 2.3 now, let's have a belated spring clean.

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But the loyal hall porter / Said, "Pray take my daughter! /
Those birds are reserved for the dons."    

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