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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:30:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Bash patches
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--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:50:42PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:43:00PM -0600, Erik Nolte wrote:
> >> >I haven't seen setmode(fd,mode) in any other POSIX environment.  Have I
> just
> >> >missed it or is this a cywin specific thing?
> >> 
> >> It's a Windows/MS-DOS specific think, I believe.  It's necessary for
> systems
> >> that distinguish between "text" and "binary".
> >> 
> >
> >Hmm, interesting, I'd suggest doing a Google search for setmode.  Seems that
> >BSD has a different idea of what setmode() is to be used for.
> 
> Actually, it looks like the same thing to me.  It's a method for changing
> the mode of an open file handle.
> 
> It looks like Cygwin's version of setmode is limited compared to BSD's but
> it's probably too late to change that now.
> 

Uhm, I don't think that file permission modes as described by chmod(1) is the
same thing as setting O_TEXT or O_BINARY on an fd.  It just doesn't sound the
same to me.

http://www.rocketaware.com/man/man3/setmode.3.htm

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
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