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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:47:53 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com>
Cc:        Maxime Henrion <mux@sneakerz.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposal for a new mount API 
Message-ID:  <15521.1011383273@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:47:15 EST." <20020118144715.587a577c.ak03@gte.com> 

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In message <20020118144715.587a577c.ak03@gte.com>, Alexander Kabaev writes:
>Maxime,
>
>are parameters in iovec supposed to be strings only, or you plan to
>allow arbitrary binary data?  

The idea is to use strings wherever possible, be able to deal with
binary blobs of data, but discourage its use.

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