ash stdin mode is set to O_TEXT

[egor duda]

Hi!

Saturday, 21 April, 2001 Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com wrote:

CF> On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 08:25:56PM +0400, egor duda wrote:
>>ash stdin mode is set to O_TEXT, so it's impossible to checkin/chechout
>>binary files from cvs when CVS_RSH is sh script.
>>
>>maybe O_TEXT should be set only in interactive mode?  or shouldn't be
>>set at all?

CF> Corinna and I have discussed this in the past.  The problem is that the
CF> 'read' command should always be text mode whether it is interactive or
CF> not.

perhaps. but wouldn't be this

/* strip trailing '\r' of input, if any */
if (*input_buf)
  {
    p = input_buf + strlen (input_buf) - 1;
    if (*p == '\r') *p = '\0';
  }

enough in case of 'read'?

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