Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:21:29 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: delvare@ensicaen.ismra.fr Subject: Re: file descriptors opened as text files Message-ID: <20010214172129.C19427@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, delvare@ensicaen.ismra.fr References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010214165225.00a95e40@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from delvare@ensicaen.ismra.fr on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 11:08:52PM +0100 On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 11:08:52PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: >>Type "mount" on your system. What does it show? Is the file in >>question being written under any of these mount points? Any of them >>binary? > >I think I understand the mount mechanism, and the binary vs text mode >mount. But I don't see the point when runing out of bash. Do you >pretend that the way I mount my drives with bash/mount changes the >program behaviour when I run it directly from Windows ? (I can hardly >believe it) I doubt that Larry is pretending. Mount does, of course, control the behavior of any cygwin-compiled program. >>Bingo. Cygwin treats files as text by default, unless you specify a >>different default. If you want your program to treat the file as >>binary, add the appropriate flags on the appropriate calls. Whamo! >>Your problem is solved. > >I hope so. That's also the way I see the thing. The question is : >What flags ? > >When using handles, I can solve the problem with fopen(f,"rb") instead >of fopen(f,"r"). And it works. But I read the whole read(2) man page >(on Linux, it doesn't exist on Cygwin) and nowhere I saw a flag that >force binary mode. Can you help ? Read the mount documentation. It's on the cygwin web page. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple