binmode idea

[DJ Delorie]

> Hopefully, DJ will chime in with a specific search string.  He actually
> called them "tunable" variables in private email that he sent to me.

http://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=cygwin-developers/2000/01/04/11:09:16

These are a per-user tunable parameter, not per-application.  I can't
see how it would benefit the binmode problem, since the mount tables
already handle that for the per-user case.