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: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 00:03:24 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: A question for Corinna Message-ID: <20010220000324.G27766@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <00f101c0988b$eab461a0$3c5350d8@bluesguitar.org> <20010217093601.D16740@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20010217201710.C32369@redhat.com> <017501c0994d$43867270$3c5350d8@bluesguitar.org> <20010217205531.A1171@redhat.com> <019701c09968$12525cd0$3c5350d8@bluesguitar.org> <20010218001628.A9863@redhat.com> <20010218133358.B23099@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20010218133358.B23099@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 01:33:58PM +0100 On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 01:33:58PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:16:29AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 11:03:02PM -0600, Matthew Smith wrote: >> >Sorry, what I'm trying to ask, is if Corinna's patches to tcsh were >> >unneccessary? >> >> I don't know. I was asking Corinna this question. >> >> >You're saying that all she had to do was build tcsh from the original >> >sources, then link with automode.o? >> >> I was asking her if this would work. Since she knows about automode.o, >> et al, I assume that she had a reason for not using it. > >Yes, I had reasons. automode.o forces O_TEXT on read - which is good - >and O_BINARY on write - which is not good Sounds like we need an "rtextmode.o" and "rbinmode.o" to set the default modes for reading files. That's easily doable. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple