Text vs. binary - should symlink be resolved?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:40:13PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>Text vs. binary processing is based on whether file resides on binary or text
>mounted filesystem.
>
>Currently Cygwin seems to check original filename as passed to open call. This
>leads to interesting effect - symlink may point anywhere, and target may
>reside on filesystem mounted with different option.
>
>IMHO the rule to determine open mode should be applied to symlink target
>(final target) - after all, that is _the_ file itself.
>
>What do you think?

I think that code speaks louder than words.  :-)

Send in a patch that makes things work the way you think they should work
and I'll consider it.

cgf

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