Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/04/13/08:46:46
---Larry Hall <lhall AT rfk DOT com> wrote:
<snip>
> b19* versions of bash (2.0.1) are hardcoded to force the pipes to be
text
> again. I didn't even realize this myself until Sergey pointed it out.
> He had recompiled a version to keep pipes as binary for b18 and I
got so
> used to having it that way, I forgot Cygnus would change it back
when I upgraded to b19! I'm building a new bash now so the world is
right again!;-)
> This explains why what you did works from the DOS prompt and not
from inside
> bash. I guess bash should really be changed to look at the bin
setting in
> CYGWIN32 environment variable so that this is more configurable...
Why? Who in there right mind would want anything but binary pipe
reads? What purpose would text pipes give? I can't think of any.
Pipes should always just pass along any data received. They should
never do anything with the data, including interpret a ^Z as the end
of file.
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