Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 19:15:35 -0400 To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Bash patches Message-ID: <20001005191535.A24316@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com References: <20001005225042.8261.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <20001005225042.8261.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:50:42PM -0700 On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:50:42PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- Chris Faylor wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:43:00PM -0600, Erik Nolte wrote: >> >I haven't seen setmode(fd,mode) in any other POSIX environment. Have I just >> >missed it or is this a cywin specific thing? >> >> It's a Windows/MS-DOS specific think, I believe. It's necessary for systems >> that distinguish between "text" and "binary". >> > >Hmm, interesting, I'd suggest doing a Google search for setmode. Seems that >BSD has a different idea of what setmode() is to be used for. Actually, it looks like the same thing to me. It's a method for changing the mode of an open file handle. It looks like Cygwin's version of setmode is limited compared to BSD's but it's probably too late to change that now. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com