To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: MORE on  O_TEXT/O_BINARY
Date: 	Tue, 21 Jun 1994 11:33:00 PDT
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>


Well, I've learned"
	fopen("b") is ANSI
	open(O_BINARY) is not POSIX...

Recompiling the gnu fileutils, I needed to stick this
in the fileutils lib (or else have to change every open call
everywhere or change __fmode in each main...):

	.data
	.globl	__fmode
__fmode:
->	.long	0x000   	; changes from O_TEXTMODE

	.text
	.globl _open
_open:
	testl	$0xc000,8(%esp)
	jnz	L0
	andl	$0xc000,__fmode
	movl	__fmode,%eax
	orl	%eax,8(%esp)
L0:
	movb	$2,%al
	jmp	turbo_assist

I really think the default mode should be binary "unless you need to
do something special".   

marty
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