problems with gawk 3.1.5-3 hanging -- more info

[David Carter]

I've taken a look at the differences between -2 and -3; here's the diff:

$ diff -r gawk-3.1.5-2 gawk-3.1.5-3
diff -r gawk-3.1.5-2/posix/gawkmisc.c gawk-3.1.5-3/posix/gawkmisc.c
223a224
> #include <stdio.h>
237a239,244
>
> void
> cygwin_premain2 (int argc, char **argv, struct per_process *myself)
> {
>   setmode (fileno (stdin), O_TEXT);
> }

...that's the only difference between the two source trees.

Not having looked at cygwin-specific source before, I'm going to guess
that cygwin_premain2 is a hook which is called at program execution
time, since there is no call to cygwin_premain2 in the source code.

I think the problem is the O_TEXT. If I change this to O_BINARY and
recompile, everything works swimmingly. The question now is: should the
file really be opened as O_TEXT, or as O_BINARY?

Can anyone set me straight on this?

Regards;

David Carter


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