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From:	Rolf Campbell <Endlisnis AT mailc DOT net>
Subject:	Re: Possible bug in text/binary mode handling in cygwin1.dll version
	1.5
Date:	Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:26:49 -0400
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Vladimir Vysotsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the following sequence of actions to reproduce this problem:
> 
> ----------------
> C:\test>bash
> bash-2.05b$ echo "Test" >/c/test/test1.txt
> bash-2.05b$ echo "Test" >c:/test/test2.txt
> bash-2.05b$ ls -l
> total 2
> -rw-r--r--    1 vvysotsk mkpasswd        6 Oct 10 19:49 test1.txt
> -rw-r--r--    1 vvysotsk mkpasswd        6 Oct 10 19:49 test2.txt
> bash-2.05b$
> ----------------
> 
> Since drive C: is mounted in text mode (mount -f -s -t "c:" /c), both 
> test1.txt and test2.txt are 6 bytes long ('T', 'e', 's', 't', 0x0D, 
> 0x0A). This is with cygwin1.dll version 1.3.2.
> 
> However, when I install cygwin1.dll version 1.5.x, test2.txt is only
> 5 bytes long, ending with just 0x0A:

C: is not mounted in text mode.  /c is mounted in text mode.  C: isn't 
mounted at all.

If you set CYGWIN=textmode then that would mean that windows-style paths 
would be treated as text-mounts.



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