Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jul 1999 22:30:02 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [Call For Wartectomy] CRLF conversion out of kernel |
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Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > IP masq changes the data too for specific apps. Simply rewriting the > > headers is not enough for applications which pass addresses & port > > numbers in their protocol. > > I guess the important difference is that IP masquerading only substitutes > bytes; it neither inserts nor deletes bytes.
Actually masquerading _does_ insert & delete bytes too :)
> [CRLF conversion] My vote is to kill that feature in 2.3 and retroactively > add a warning to 2.2.11.
FWIW my vote is to kill CRLF conversion too.
The only time I used it was by accident and _what_ an irritation that was. And there are quite a few apps that read files using `mmap'. You want CRLF conversion to work for some apps and not others?
-- Jamie
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