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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:31:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Alejandro Lopez-Valencia <dradul AT etb DOT net DOT co>
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Subject: Re: Pserver on cygwin corrupts binary files
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:01:09 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> >On Feb 17 18:16, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:
> >> Because when using textmode, cygwin changes the semantics of I/O
> >> functions in the underlying C runtime. It does (and forces) EOL
> >> conversion on all files read and written to the filesystem as well as
> >> *sockets* and *pipes* for all applications compiled with the runtime.
> >
> >Nope.  Sockets reads and writes are always binary.
> >
> >Corinna
>
> Thanks for ether correction. But wasn't that the case a couple of
> years back?

The textmode mount flag affects neither pipes nor sockets, and never did.
There is a "(no)binmode" $CYGWIN setting that affects pipes, but I'm not
sure if it also affects sockets.
	Igor
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