Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:40:09 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [BUG] Patch.exe problem report Message-ID: <20020220194009.GC32346@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4.2.0.58.20020214133209.019b68a8@ics.u-strasbg.fr> <20020220171937.D23094@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3C73F884.1060403@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C73F884.1060403@ece.gatech.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:27:00PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >>It now opens the source file in O_TEXT mode and writes >>it in O_BINARY so that the destination file is always >>written out with UNIX LFs. > >Ummm...is that really a good idea? patch will now autoconvert every >"dosmode" file to "unixmode" -- even on text mounts? (I use only >binmounts, so *I'm* not worried, but....) I made an executive decision on this. It seems like the best solution to the problem. It's consistent with other tools like bison, awk, sed, etc., too. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/