Re: textmode for stdout, what is "correct" now?

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Feb 16 09:19, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> On 2/15/19 9:31 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Feb 15 19:07, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> >> On 2/15/19 1:48 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>> On Feb 15 13:03, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> >>>> On 2/15/19 11:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>>> On Feb 15 08:56, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> >>>>>> On 2/14/19 5:20 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Feb 14 16:23, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>> [SNIP]
> >>>>>> Down the line in their BIO module they do use setmode(fd, O_TEXT),
> >>>>>> which is the one that does introduce the \r, as far as I know.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This one is not so nice.  Somebody should tell upstream we only
> >>>>> want explicit O_BINARY these days, but no explicit O_TEXT.
> >>
> >> To me it sounds strange to use the one but not the other:
> >>
> >> If we don't want O_TEXT at all, isn't O_BINARY obsolete as well,
> >> so the advise should be to use neither - just like real *nix?
> > 
> > No, on text mode mounts O_BINARY makes sure that the result is
> > actually a binary file.
> > 
> >> A consequence then might be to deprecate (or even remove) them
> >> from the public API header files.
> > 
> > As long as we have text mode mounts, no.
> 
> Ah... So this feels like a semantic confusion around setmode(O_TEXT):
> 
> For the fopen() API family, POSIX says that conforming platforms should
> accept (and eventually ignore) the 'b' character in the mode argument.
> But note that there is no 't' character specified here.
> 
> So with the fopen() API family, application developers are able to
> enable or disable binary mode, but are _not_ able to explicitly
> enable or disable text mode.
> 
> Unfortunately, the setmode() API is semantically different, because it
> does not allow to disable binary mode, but to "enable text mode" instead.
> 
> So with the setmode() API, when application developers want to disable
> binary mode, their only option is to "enable text mode".

setmode(fd, O_BINARY) works on Cygwin.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

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