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 Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:40:12 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Binary read on textmode mount Message-ID: <20041105164012.GJ18823@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:26:31AM -0500, Shaffer, Kenneth wrote: >I have a program doing a binary read on a file which happens to exist on a >textmode mount and find that once a ctrl-Z (0x1a) byte is read, it doesn't >read the rest of the file since ctrl-Z is a DOS EOF. > >The program is compiled with -mno-cygwin and adds no additional libraries >on the compile line. cygcheck on the executable show: > >Found: .\corinfo.exe >Found: >e:\projects\RebootAnalysisTools\LogAnalysisTools\LogAnalysisTools\corinfo.exe >corinfo.exe > C:\WINNT\system32\msvcrt.dll > C:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.dll > C:\WINNT\system32\NTDLL.DLL > >Anyway, wondering if the stopping on EOF even though performing a binary >read on a file existing on a textmode mount is normal behaviour. > >Should I change all my mounts to binary? If so, what problems might >arise? I've been burned in the past with mount modes and would suggest >that the FAQ maintainer write something up about it. Why would you expect a windows (-mno-cygwin) program to be cognizant of cygwin mounts? If you are having problems with reading data in a purely windows program then cygwin is not involved in any way. -- 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/