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 12:28:55 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Binary read on textmode mount Message-ID: <20041105172855.GA25396@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20041105164033.9CEF11B3FA@cgf.cx> 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 11:48:31AM -0500, Shaffer, Kenneth wrote: >I'm using the cygwin development environment and so thought this was the >correct place to post a problem. But you make a good point, so I copied >the file to /tmp, mounted as binary, and got the same results. You are running a windows program. Windows programs DO NOT UNDERSTAND cygwin mounts. Cygwin doesn't magically affect any windows program which runs in "the cygwin development environment". If you want to open a file in binary mode use "rb" in your fopen call or O_BINARY in your open call. -- 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/