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 19:42:37 -0400 To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Bash patches Message-ID: <20001005194237.A24728@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com References: <20001005233055.29843.qmail@web116.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: <20001005233055.29843.qmail@web116.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:30:55PM -0700 On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:30:55PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> >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. >> > >Uhm, I don't think that file permission modes as described by chmod(1) is the >same thing as setting O_TEXT or O_BINARY on an fd. It just doesn't sound the >same to me. > >http://www.rocketaware.com/man/man3/setmode.3.htm There seems to be am epidemic of people not reading the entire thread before responding to email here, lately. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com