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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:08:00 -0500
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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CC: khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU, cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to: <20000122121105.A19130@cygnus.com> (message from Chris Faylor on
	Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:11:05 -0500)
Subject: Re: binmode idea
References: <20000122113536 DOT A18995 AT cygnus DOT com> <200001221656 DOT KAA20887 AT ares DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu> <20000122121105 DOT A19130 AT cygnus DOT com>


> Hopefully, DJ will chime in with a specific search string.  He actually
> called them "tunable" variables in private email that he sent to me.

http://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=cygwin-developers/2000/01/04/11:09:16

These are a per-user tunable parameter, not per-application.  I can't
see how it would benefit the binmode problem, since the mount tables
already handle that for the per-user case.