From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:16:19 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems? Message-ID: <20070916181619.2787f4a6@twins> In-Reply-To: References: <1189850897.21778.301.camel@twins> <1189855141.21778.307.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Kyle Moffett Cc: Anton Altaparmakov , marc.smith@esmail.mcc.edu, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List List-ID: On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:22:11 -0400 Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Sep 15, 2007, at 07:19:01, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 11:50 +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > >> I haven't word wrapped it at all. The lines appear as whole lines > >> in Apple Mail (my email client). It must be your email client > >> that is wrapping them... > > > > Oddly, this line is still long in Andrew's reply but wrapped in > > yours. Must be some odd mailer interaction. > > Actually Apple Mail.app sends format=flowed wrapped to 73 > characters. So a wrapped line has a single space character right > before each 'wrapping' newline. If your mail client supports > format=flowed viewing and sends without format=flowed (like AKPM's > mailer appears to), then it will properly unwrap the lines and resend > without the wrapping. Mailers which *DONT* support format=flowed > will see the wrapped version. Normally this is what you want but > it's a PITA for patches and logfiles. > > I believe with Mail.app if you attach a .txt file it will be > unmangled and sent as "Content-Type: text/plain" and "Content- > Disposition: inline", so most email-clients will display it as part > of the message. Ah, thanks for the hint. I've switched mailer to claws-mail-3.0.0 and hacked the thing a bit so its useful. One of the things I added was a menu entry for respect_flowed_format. So I can now flip between flowed and non-flowed with a key. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org