From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:57:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:57:30 -0400 Received: from 216-60-128-137.ati.utexas.edu ([216.60.128.137]:28572 "HELO tsunami.webofficenow.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:57:18 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Rob Landley Reply-To: landley@webofficenow.com To: Luigi Genoni , Subject: Re: The Joy of Forking Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 10:50:42 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0106241050420D.01519@localhost.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 24 June 2001 09:46, Luigi Genoni wrote: > > > no SMP > > > x86 only (and similar, e.g. Crusoe) > > Is this a joke? > I hope it is. > > Luigi Nah, I think it's an intentional troll. Either that or somebody who's So naieve they honestly think that having different "text mode" and "binary mode" attributes of files (the cr/lf thing) can in some strange way actually improve a system. (Justifying it with the way printers work when sent an ascii text stream, despite the fact that most printers these days receive postscript or something equally distant from ascii after the printer drivers get done with it. And that text processing itself is, regrettably, moving to Unicode.) Rob