Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:25:17 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: HANRIGOU <HANRIGOU AT cgste DOT mq>
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Subject: Re: read/write in binary mode: fopen/open behaviour
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On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, HANRIGOU wrote:

> Then I ran this program with a foo file containing many ^Z to check
> that we read the entire file.
> And... everything is OK. In fact in my first tests I had kept too much
> from the original GNU code and, between first fopen() and read() loop 
> there was a call to a function that resets file mode to ascii. 

Okay, now it's clear.  Thanks for digging.

> BTW is there an easy way to test current file type associated to a file
> descriptor? I haven't been able to find this in libc.

Look at the sources of the function __file_handle_set.