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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:17:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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cc: Herb Martin <HerbM AT LearnQuick DOT Com>
Subject: RE: stat file -- cygwin vs. Windows size?
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Herb Martin wrote:
>
> > > >My suspicion is that stat is counting cr-lf as two characters but the
> > > >input routines are treating these as one.
> > > >
> > > >If the file has about 20 lines, then that's 20 missing characters???
> > >
> > > Yes, this is right.  And yes, this could be the cause of the
> > > situation you're noticing.
> >
> > Is there a standard Cygwin 'idiom' or function for dealing with this
> > mismatch, or should I just re-invent the wheel.
>
> Sure -- just force binary mode on the file (i.e., open it using O_BINARY
> for the open() call, or the "rb" mode for the fopen() call).  The mount
> type only applies if the mode is unspecified.

A clarification: force binary mode on the opened file in your program, not
the actual on-disk data.

Note that if you do that, you'd also need to handle the CR ('\r', or 0x0d)
characters explicitly in your program.

HTH,
	Igor

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