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Hi! Thursday, 11 October, 2001 Charles Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu wrote: >> currently, files like '//server/share/path/to/file' are opened in >> text mode, if only '//server/share/path/to/' doesn't belong to any >> mount. mounting every share is not always possible, and otherwise >> there's no way to make such files to be opened in binary mode. >> attached patch uses 'binmode' from CYGWIN environment variable to >> determine default mode. Comments? CW> I thought binmode was only supposed to affect pipe behavior, not mount CW> behavior -- this patch conflates the two. Wouldn't it be better to key CW> off of the mount mode for /cygdrive/ ? We're talking about the "default CW> mount mode" for non-explicit "auto-mounts" in both cases... CW> "/cygdrive/x/" and "//unc/share/" this sounds like a good idea. updated patch attached. Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
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