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Re: Bash patches
- To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: Bash patches
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 19:15:35 -0400
- References: <20001005225042.8261.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:50:42PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.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.
Actually, it looks like the same thing to me. It's a method for changing
the mode of an open file handle.
It looks like Cygwin's version of setmode is limited compared to BSD's but
it's probably too late to change that now.
cgf
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