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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:07:01 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: starting a cygwin app from a Windows Service
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:09:35AM +0200, Dan Vasaru wrote:
>Mark,
>
>As Chris suggested, if you want consistent behaviour under cygwin, always
>open text files in text mode (O_TEXT or "rt").
>Even better, wrt portability to Unix platforms, is to:
>
>1. open the file in binary mode
>2. be prepared to accept both CRLF- and LF-style text files (i.e. strip the
>CR yourself)
>
>This way, your software will always "behave" when encountering a Windows
>file while running on a Unix platform.

I don't know.  I think it would be far simpler to have something like:

#ifdef __CYGWIN__
# define READTEXT "rt"
#else
# define READTEXT "r"
#endif

.
.
.

  FILE fp = fopen ("foo", READTEXT);

rather than reinvent the CRLF handling that already exists in the cygwin DLL.

Another option is to link with /usr/lib/automode.o or /usr/lib/textmode.o .

cgf

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