From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268846AbUHZLml (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:42:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268765AbUHZLjy (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:39:54 -0400 Received: from levante.wiggy.net ([195.85.225.139]:17311 "EHLO mx1.wiggy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268794AbUHZL3o (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:29:44 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:29:38 +0200 From: Wichert Akkerman To: Andrew Morton Cc: Spam , jra@samba.org, torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Message-ID: <20040826112938.GK2612@wiggy.net> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Morton , Spam , jra@samba.org, torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com References: <20040825233739.GP10907@legion.cup.hp.com> <20040825234629.GF2612@wiggy.net> <1939276887.20040826114028@tnonline.net> <20040826024956.08b66b46.akpm@osdl.org> <839984491.20040826122025@tnonline.net> <20040826032457.21377e94.akpm@osdl.org> <742303812.20040826125114@tnonline.net> <20040826035500.00b5df56.akpm@osdl.org> <1453776111.20040826131547@tnonline.net> <20040826042043.15978b0a.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040826042043.15978b0a.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Previously Andrew Morton wrote: > But I'll grant that one cannot go adding new metadata to, say, C files this > way. I don't know how useful such a thing is though. That is actually one of the few places where a bit of metadata would be very useful. Right now there is no way to indicate in what encoding a source is written: ascii, utf-8, ucs16, etc. are all possible. But a compiler or interpreter has no good way to figure that out. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.