Bash patches

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Thu Oct 5 16:43:00 GMT 2000


On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:30:55PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> >Hmm, interesting, I'd suggest doing a Google search for setmode.  Seems that
>> >BSD has a different idea of what setmode() is to be used for.
>> 
>> Actually, it looks like the same thing to me.  It's a method for changing
>> the mode of an open file handle.
>> 
>> It looks like Cygwin's version of setmode is limited compared to BSD's but
>> it's probably too late to change that now.
>> 
>
>Uhm, I don't think that file permission modes as described by chmod(1) is the
>same thing as setting O_TEXT or O_BINARY on an fd.  It just doesn't sound the
>same to me.
>
> http://www.rocketaware.com/man/man3/setmode.3.htm

There seems to be am epidemic of people not reading the entire thread before
responding to email here, lately.

cgf

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