> 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.
I agree. It is pure bloat. todos/fromdos are there to solve the
problem. It shouldn't be in-kernel.
-- Mike A. Harris Linux advocate GNU advocate Computer Consultant Open Source advocateTea, Earl Grey, Hot...
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