Re: [PATCH 36/38] vfs: Add a sample program for the new mount API [ver #10]

Matthew Wilcox
2018-07-30T18:38:53Z

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:18:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:08 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > Have you looked at how gettext() works? It uses the english text as
> > a search string and replaces it with the localised string. This is
> > a very common design!
>
> I absolutely refuse to have anything to do with gettext in the kernel.

I wasn't proposing putting gettext in the kernel. I was reacting to
Pavel saying "You can't return English strings from the kernel, you have
to translate numbers into any language's strings".

If somebody wants to use gettext() in userspace to translate the string
they got back from the kernel, that's fine. But it won't produce very
useful bug reports.