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, 15 Feb 2001 13:37:59 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: file descriptors opened as text files Message-ID: <20010215133759.F4397@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4.3.1.2.20010215104635.017d17d8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from delvare@ensicaen.ismra.fr on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 06:21:08PM +0100 On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 06:21:08PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > >> Its not a Cygwin invention. Its a MS one. Check out the documentation >> for open()/_open() on the MSDN. They use the _O_BINARY flag. Don't get me >> wrong. I hate text mode in all its forms. Perhaps Cygwin could've forgone >> its use here. Maybe not. However, doing so here follows the MS lead and >> wasn't a Cygwin concoction. >I don't use MS development softwares. That's not the point here. Sorry. Yes, it is the point here. Cygwin tries to emulate MSVC with respect to the binary/text mode stuff. Unless you can prove some incompatibility, get over it. It's not going to change. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple