Pserver on cygwin corrupts binary files

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Feb 18 10:21:00 GMT 2004


On Feb 17 18:16, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:
> Because when using textmode, cygwin changes the semantics of I/O
> functions in the underlying C runtime. It does (and forces) EOL
> conversion on all files read and written to the filesystem as well as
> *sockets* and *pipes* for all applications compiled with the runtime.

Nope.  Sockets reads and writes are always binary.

Corinna

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