Pending change to cygwin DLL and binmode/textmode musings

[Corinna Vinschen]

Chris Faylor wrote:
> text mode and bin mode mounts in Cygwin.  My implementation gives precedence
> to the (little used?) _fmode variable which has always been around in Cygwin.
> Setting this variable to O_BINARY used to be the same as CYGWIN=binmode,
> i.e., it didn't affect disk files.  Now it does.

FWIW, I'm _heavily_ interested in your incorporating that patch
into the developer sources. The reason is, I would be able to
speed up porting OpenSSH-2.1.1p1 by means. I would like to set
_fmode = O_TEXT and use O_BINARY where appropriate so I could
remove each use of `fopen(..., "rt")'. But: Wouldn't the use of
_fmode = O_TEXT additionally affect writes? I would still need the
differing of read (O_TEXT) and write (don't care).

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company