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Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 00:06:43 +0100
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Perl binmode problem on text mount
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:49:46PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> 
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>Pipes are binmode by default.
>>
>>That means they are just as pipes are ought to be, "what goes in comes
>>out again, not more and not less"?
>>
>>Or does it mean that a pipe always strips \r?  Then the cat example of
>>the OP doesn't count at all.
> 
> 
> binmode means there is no extra processing on the fd.  It is handled
> just like linux.  Linux doesn't add or subtract any characters when
> it is doing I/O.
> 
> You're right, though.  The cat example really doesn't provide any useful
> details.  In fact, cat will output in text mode in some cases.
> 
> The definitive test would be to run the older and newer versions of
> perl on the newest version of cygwin.  If the output using 'binmode'
> differs between the two then perl is doing something wrong.  If it
> is the same then cygwin is doing something wrong.

I saw that the output differs between perl-5.6.1 and perl-5.8.5 with the 
example from the OP.
This means that someone should file a bug report to the perlbug
facility.  I rewrote the example, and then I saw that perl does the
right thing on 'normal' filehandles, but obviously not if the filehandle 
is STDOUT.

Gerrit
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