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 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 19:21:38 -0400 From: Chris Faylor To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Bash patches Message-ID: <20001005192138.A24421@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com References: <20001005225042.8261.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com> <20001005191535.A24316@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <20001005191535.A24316@cygnus.com>; from cgf on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:15:35PM -0400 On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:15:35PM -0400, cgf wrote: >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. Oops. Nevermind. That wasn't a BSD related web page that I was reading. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com