From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964798AbWGSMDX (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:03:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964799AbWGSMDX (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:03:23 -0400 Received: from mail.metronet.co.uk ([213.162.97.75]:62177 "EHLO mail.metronet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964798AbWGSMDX (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:03:23 -0400 From: Alistair John Strachan To: Bernd Petrovitsch Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support DOS line endings Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:02:43 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060707173458.GB1605@parisc-linux.org> <20060713210725.GA1923@mars.ravnborg.org> <1152826904.3084.1.camel@gimli.at.home> In-Reply-To: <1152826904.3084.1.camel@gimli.at.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607191302.43452.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 13 July 2006 22:41, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 23:07 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > [...] > > > Thanks. Maybe I should just stop trying to code anything today ;-) > > Or take it as a sign to not support DOS line endings. It certainly would be better to warn if a file with DOS line endings is being used, even if supported, so that such files never enter the kernel undetected. -- Cheers, Alistair. Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.