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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:20:02 -0400
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To: AJ Reins <tbisp AT uswest DOT net>
Cc: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>, cygwin-apps AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: [stephen DOT f DOT tarr AT opbu DOT xerox DOT com: RE: shell back quote expansion problem]
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In-Reply-To: <395ACCFA.4D4DB71@pop.mpls.uswest.net>; from tbisp@uswest.net on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:13:46PM -0500

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:13:46PM -0500, AJ Reins wrote:
>Chris Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> Do ash and bash open backquoted pipes in text mode?  Should they?
>> 
>> cgf
>> 
>
>Bash appears to let the dll handle that, as setting CYGWIN to binmode
>or nobinmode does have the appropriate affect. This was the reason
>for that particular setting, if memory serves.

I can't think of a reason for not setting a back quoted response to
text mode, though.

When I implemented CYGWIN32=binmode, I was considering the case of
the actual pipe '|' character.  I thought that it would be nice to
make this selectable.

I've since come to the conclusion that pipes accessed with '|' should
always be binary since it is just too confusing otherwise.  I think
that `` should also always be text.  I can imagine a case where it
is vaguely possible that someone would want a \r on their command line
but I'd rather have this use suffer than the much more frequent case
where the \r is not desired.

cgf