From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: UUIDGEN in lisp
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:57:21 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3c97ko12.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@asado.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2586.1077048551.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> I suggest to use raw-text-unix when doing I/O of random bytes that you
> don't want to be mangled. no-conversion (binary is just its alias)
> once meant that the internal Mule representation was read and written
> to produce multibyte characters, so I suggest to avoid that to prevent
> confusion.
AFAIK, binary, no-conversion, and raw-text-unix are completely equivalent.
There might have been an earlier version of Emacs where `binary' was not
handled as binary, but that was clearly a bug because `binary' says very
clearly what it means.
So I recommend to use `binary' when reading a binary file because it's
obviously the right thing and if things go wrong it's clear that it's
a problem with Emacs rather than with the elisp code. The bytes read from
/dev/urandom have nothing to do with text, so `raw-text-unix' is just
a bad choice.
Stefan
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2004-02-14 4:05 ` UUIDGEN in lisp Jesper Harder
2004-02-14 18:23 ` Brad Collins
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2004-02-15 0:27 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-15 4:16 ` Brad Collins
2004-02-15 16:05 ` Brad Collins
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2004-02-15 20:47 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-16 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-16 13:47 ` Brad Collins
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2004-02-16 16:30 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-16 19:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2004-02-16 21:05 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-17 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2004-02-17 18:45 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-17 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2004-02-17 21:21 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-18 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-19 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.2471.1076940207.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-16 17:10 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-14 18:54 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-02-15 2:37 ` Felix
2004-02-14 2:57 Brad Collins
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