Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/10/13/20:42:11
I've seen a few threads so far on this list about the default mode for
opening pipes, and the arguments for and against each way. Along those
lines, I've noticed that FreeBSD has a nice little interface to some of
the system configuration stuff sysctl({3|8}), sysctl(8) being a wrapper
of sorts. This got me to thinking, something like this could be really
useful for enabling or disabling certian debugging stuff. I know that the
mount table is stored in the registry already, what about something like
this? For instance, one could say type sysctl -c debug.sigchld=1, and it
would effect everything globally, and it would provide a more uniform way
to check various options. Thoughts?
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Larry Hall wrote:
> Actually, regardless of how the file systems are mounted, if you are using
> the bash that came with the original b18, stdin, stdout, stderr, and pipes
> will be opened in text mode. The later version of bash (2.0.1) compiled by
> Sergey does NOT set all these to text mode and therefore you won't get
> carriage returns appended. I am uncertain whether mounting file systems as
> binary using the original version of bash would remove the carriage returns
> from stdin, stdout, and stderr (probably not) but the problem would persist
> for pipes. See Sergey's patches for the new bash (and patched cygwin DLL) -
> http://www.lexa.ru/sos.
- alex
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