From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: What does it mean?
28 Jun 1998 12:47:49 -0700
Message-ID: <01BDA2EF.32089A70.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@sos>
To: "'jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT goodnet DOT com'" <jeffdb AT goodnet DOT com>
Cc: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

Mikey wrote:
> This code is unneeded on NT AFAIK, it was added because
> win95 w/B19.1- couldn't find shell scripts in path.
> 

Shell script detection algorhytm is the same on both 95 and NT. But O_APPEND flag is really broken on NT in that code fragment.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia