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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:40:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron AT pdinc DOT us>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: stat file -- cygwin vs. Windows size?
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The binary size is accurate, text, by its nature may never be correct on 
any operating system, since it is buffered, parsed, etc by the OS in an OS 
dependent way.

If you use a binary mode then you will be fine.


On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Herb Martin wrote:

>>> Is there a standard Cygwin 'idiom' or function for dealing with this
>>> mismatch, or should I just re-invent the wheel.
>>
>>
>> If you actually believe that you want the file without cr/nl
>> conversion during a read, then you want to open it in binary
>> mode (fopen() with "rb"
>> instead of "r" or open() with '| O_BINARY' appended).  This
>> *may* be the solution in this case.  Since the default mode
>> for opening files is always "text" but there is no difference
>> in format/behavior between "text" and "binary" on UNIX/Linux,
>> you wouldn't see an issue there.
>
>
> Actually I am between a rock and hard place --
> email server on one side and SpamD on the
> other.
>
> Apparently the SpamD 'protocol' requires passing the
> size to SpamD.
>
> I don't want to start re-writing code all over either
> program -- I just want to talk the source email system
> into telling spamd whatever it needs to know to be happy.
>
> Currently, I am accumulating bytes, and will use that,
> but I am missing something and not getting the write count
> (YET.)
>
>
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