ash stdin mode is set to O_TEXT

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Mon Apr 23 08:06:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:06:06AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 06:52:48PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Actually, the 'cat foo | sh' example should still default to text mode.
>> sh shouldn't interpret CRs when a pipe is opened.
>> 
>> I think what is really needed here is for sh to not use setmode at all.
>> It should probably set its stdin to binary and do the CR stripping itself.
>
>*looong sigh*
>
>I recall that I did that when I should change ash to accomodate
>text/binmode for the first time. I have been advised to use
>setmode instead...

Jeez.  Who was the idiot who told you to do that?

Oh.

cgf



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