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Re: XWin.exe crashes


On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 04:10:28PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>
>> Sven K?hler wrote:
>> 
>> > good hint, now it works
>> > why? what's the problem using text-mounts with XWin?
>> 
>> either xkbcomp or XWin opens the file in the wrong mode (they do not 
>> specify if the data is binary or text) so it get's opened in the mode
>> which was specified with mount. I've just fixed the line in XWin but 
>> have not tested if it fails too. But I guess it's xkbcomp which is the 
>> problem.
>
>xkbcomp was not aware of binary or text files. I've changed it and xkbcomp
>now produces files with same length for binary and text mounts. Attached is 
>a patch for this. It also patches the Xserver to open the files in binmode.
>
>A test binary is available:
>http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/xkbcomp.exe.bz2
>replace the one in /usr/X11R6/bin und /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb or 
>/etc/X11/xkb

Maybe everything in Cygwin/XFree86 should be linked with /usr/lib/binmode.o?

cgf


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