Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 07:39:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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       Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser
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On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> How do we get the information about the character encoding of the string 
> to be parsed into the kernel?

I really would expect that kernel strings don't have an encoding. They're 
just C strings: a NUL-terminated stream of bytes.

		Linus
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