Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: Possible bug in text/binary mode handling in cygwin1.dll version 1.5 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:26:49 -0400 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <3F8771D4.7000907@trivee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3F8771D4.7000907@trivee.org> Vladimir Vysotsky wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using the following sequence of actions to reproduce this problem: > > ---------------- > C:\test>bash > bash-2.05b$ echo "Test" >/c/test/test1.txt > bash-2.05b$ echo "Test" >c:/test/test2.txt > bash-2.05b$ ls -l > total 2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 vvysotsk mkpasswd 6 Oct 10 19:49 test1.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 vvysotsk mkpasswd 6 Oct 10 19:49 test2.txt > bash-2.05b$ > ---------------- > > Since drive C: is mounted in text mode (mount -f -s -t "c:" /c), both > test1.txt and test2.txt are 6 bytes long ('T', 'e', 's', 't', 0x0D, > 0x0A). This is with cygwin1.dll version 1.3.2. > > However, when I install cygwin1.dll version 1.5.x, test2.txt is only > 5 bytes long, ending with just 0x0A: C: is not mounted in text mode. /c is mounted in text mode. C: isn't mounted at all. If you set CYGWIN=textmode then that would mean that windows-style paths would be treated as text-mounts. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/