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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 19:17:11 -0400
- References: <20001005231632.324.qmail@web111.yahoomail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:16:32PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> 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.
>>
>
>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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