upload: diffstat-1.40-1, tar-1.15.1-1
Igor Pechtchanski
pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Wed Aug 17 18:06:00 GMT 2005
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:56:54PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >The fact that there are no standards for O_TEXT or "rt"/"wt" didn't
> >help my confusion any.
>
> Well, I guess just relying on the "common sense" philosophy of "I told
> it do do this, so that's what I'd expect it to do" is something that
> can't be relied on.
>
> >It seems that "wt" is rather useless, then. If one wanted to always
> >produce a file with CRLF line endings, she'd open it with O_BINARY and
> >use "\r\n" sequences for line endings.
>
> Let's apply some common sense here, too. You specify "wt", what would
> you expect? You'd expect a file with CRLF endings, i.e., LF should be
> translated to CRLF. And, amazingly enough, that's what you get.
Yes, I see, thanks. The one point of this discussion that still remains
valid is that <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html>
needs to be updated to reflect the availability of "rt"/"wt" modes for
fopen().
Igor
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