Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Jul 1999 23:54:11 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [Call For Wartectomy] CRLF conversion out of kernel |
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Hi!
> 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.
Kill it. Install podfuk and use
cat /mnt/file#cr to convert it from dos and
cat /etc/passwd#crlf > /mnt/file to convert it to dos.
If this is too inconvient, I guess few lines of C code into libvfs is enough to do this kind of translation in userspace [I'm not going to write them], so you could actually
cd /mnt#dos_brain_damage/ and see all files magically converted. You could even implement /mnt#dos_brain_damage:txt,doc,c,pas/ if you wanted to.
Pavel -- I'm really pavel@ucw.cz. Look at http://195.113.31.123/~pavel. Pavel Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!
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