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Re: file descriptors opened as text files
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:36:59PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> But file descriptors being concerned, cygwin's behavior is just weird (my
> opinion). The file desciptor is the lowest access level to the files. In
> the unix world (the real one) there is simply no text mode defined for
> file descriptors (which makes my program using O_BINARY unportable). It
> looks like a Cygnus' invention, and will probably cause lots of trouble to
> any developper porting applications using file descriptors - and there
> must be a lot. I don't even think this behavior is POSIX compliant (but I
> don't know how to check it).
1st step: Add O_BINARY to the open calls.
2nd step:
#ifndef O_BINARY
#define O_BINARY 0
#endif
Ported (mostly).
Corinna
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