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From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date:	Thu, 5 Oct 2000 19:17:11 -0400
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Subject:	Re: Bash patches
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In-Reply-To:	<20001005231632.324.qmail@web111.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:16:32PM -0700

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:16:32PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>> --- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:43:00PM -0600, Erik Nolte wrote:
>> > >I haven't seen setmode(fd,mode) in any other POSIX environment.  Have I
>> just
>> > >missed it or is this a cywin specific thing?
>> > 
>> > It's a Windows/MS-DOS specific think, I believe.  It's necessary for
>> systems
>> > that distinguish between "text" and "binary".
>> > 
>> 
>> Hmm, interesting, I'd suggest doing a Google search for setmode.  Seems that
>> BSD has a different idea of what setmode() is to be used for.
>> 
>
>And I find that it should be _setmode( int handle, int mode ) for the LIBC,
>LIBCMT, MSVCRT equivalent.

_setmode works in cygwin, too, of course.  It can also work in MSVC.

cgf

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