new function suggestion fsetmode

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Wed Jan 3 07:16:00 GMT 2001


oops. Thanks for the tip.

Can I suggest a reference to that on 
http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html

Rob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: new function suggestion fsetmode


> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:21:36AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> >Hi,
> >    I'd like to suggest a function for working on FILE* handles
> >
> >int fsetmode(FILE* fhandle, int mode)
> >{
> >    if (fhandle)
> >        return setmode(fhandle->_file, mode);
> >    else
> >        return EOF;
> >}
> >
> >I wasn't sure where in cygwin to place it...  so I'll leave that up to
> >the core group.  I ran across a whole bunch of fopen calls recently
> >that needed to be forced into text mode..  this is how I've done it.
> >
> >Maybe bad things happen doing this?  I assume not.  But as the function
> >needs to look into the FILE * struct's privates, I figure it should be
> >part of cygwin itself.
> 
> I think it is preferable to just use 'setmode' and the 'fileno(fp)' interface.
> fileno() is the accepted way for looking at the internal "_file" part of
> an fd structure.
> 
> cgf
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