ash stdin mode is set to O_TEXT

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Sun Apr 22 05:02:00 GMT 2001


----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
>
> That's really tricky:
>
> sh < foo O_TEXT?
> cat foo | sh O_BINARY?
>
> Corinna
>

That looks correct to me. I had some trouble with awk a while back that
I haven't gotten around to fixing... and its the same difference. I
don't know whether it's up to the shell to set the input and output
types and let the app override, or whether it's just the apps problem...

Rob



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