Updated: Perl 5.8.0-3 breaks binmode()
Gerrit P. Haase
gp@familiehaase.de
Mon Jun 9 22:15:00 GMT 2003
Hallo Don,
> This update breaks the usage of binmode(FH). I am sure that:
>> News: Changes: - Moved Cygwin to the non DOSish platforms.
> is the main reason. Last time I was in the perl sources, I saw that
> perl only expected two types of file opens; text or binary. However
> cygwin supports 3: default, text, and binary.
> I would expect that declaring cygwin to be like VOS (text open is
> different then binary open; but do not change end of line handling)
> would be the fix.
Where and what to apply? Do you have a patch handy for me to test
with?
> I have also found that | some times does things to end of lines also.
> Here is output of some tests that I ran to validate this issue (tests
> are available via direct e-mail):
Yes, please send me your tests.
Gerrit
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