Proposal for new cygwin flag: notextmode masks away O_TEXT

[Dan Vasaru]

Quoting Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>:

>Works fine for me on a binmode or textmode mount, which is by
>design.  sed should open its input in textmode and it's output
>in binary mode.

I understand that. Is there any flavour of unix that does provide CRLF
translation ?
I think not, and that's what I'm hinting at when talking about (bug-to-bug)
compatibility.

>I think you have the tools you need, so I do not want to complicate
>the binmode/textmode logic in cygwin with YA option.

I'll buy that. Just wish the option was there.

Dan



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