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To: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com>
Cc: Maxime Henrion <mux@sneakerz.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Proposal for a new mount API 
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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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