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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net>
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Subject: RE: [NON-WHINE] RE: mkstemp vs. text mode
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:47:09 -0500
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More non-negative news: The Cygwin/X Server creates its own subdirectory and
a bunch of files in /tmp and still appears to work fine.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-patches-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-patches-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Gary R. 
> Van Sickle
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 8:56 PM
> To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: [NON-WHINE] RE: mkstemp vs. text mode
> 
> > From: Gary R. Van Sickle
> > 
> > > From: Gary R. Van Sickle
> > > 
> > > > From: Christopher Faylor
> > > [snip]
> > > > Yes, I think it makes sense to open temp files in binary
> > > but I'll bet
> > > > that someone is relying on textmode behavior.
> > > 
> > > I'll see that bet and raise you; I'll bet this results in massive 
> > > problems.
> > > 
> 
> Welp, looks like I (probably) lose that hand (happily).  Using:
> 
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 DFW5RB41 1.5.20s(0.155/4/2) 20060418 12:31:05 
> i686 Cygwin
> 
> with a /tmp mounted as text mode works fine for a configure, 
> build, and install of wxWindows.  The configure does most of 
> the temp file machinations, with about 2000 add, modify, and 
> remove events in the /tmp directory, as reported by a program 
> I have for monitoring such things.
> 
> --
> Gary R. Van Sickle
> 


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