Re: [RFC] Suggested ways to remove the need for xm-go32.h

[Christopher Faylor <me at cgf dot cx>]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 03:53:30PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 03:36:21PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> writes:
>>>That's nothing GDB should be concerned of, probably, but that's
>>>definitely a leak in the definitions.  How much sense does it make to
>>>allow "b" in fopen but no equivalent in the low-level interface :-(
>>
>>Doing the text conversion on the low level creates a heap of problems
>>with POSIX semantics.  The stdio level is much better suited for this
>>task.
>
>Yeah, but it makes things pretty tough for a system that has to support
>tough, like what happens when you do an fdopen on a file that has been
>open()ed with O_TEXT and then do an 'fseek'?
>
>I truly all of this binary/text stuff.  I wish Cygwin had never tried to
        ^
      detest
>continue to advance the distinction.