Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API

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On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 09:16:10PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> The point is, however, that this is highly undesirable, and it would be
> nice to have a kernel that would (optionally) fully support a UTF-8
> environment in where applications can feed UTF-8 and _expect_ UTF-8 in
> return, which _is_ a security issue.
> 
> It's very desirable to have a kernel that actively supports this. IT is
> clearly not _required_, of course. But then again, process abstraction
> is also not required...

Mind taking the demagogy elsewhere?  Note that the same handwaving applies
to e.g. file contents.  Care to explain what makes read() and write()
different in that respect?
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