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On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:40:22PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob %stergaard wrote:
> > So you want generaiton and parsing of text strings whenever we pass an int from
> > the kernel ?
> 
> "scanf is tough" --- programmer Barbie...

I'm a little scared when our VFS guy claims he never heard of excellent
programmers using scanf in a way that led to parse errors.

/me hopes VFS doesn't use scanf...

Come on Al, if you have real arguments let hear them, if you want to insult
people you gotta do better than that above.   :)

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