"od" wrong line endings and byte count

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 05:16:40PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 05:58:47PM -0600, "Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote:
>>>On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 05:27:45PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 12:34:03PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>>>>>This means that when a cygwin program reads a file with
>>>CRLF endings
>>>>>it is translated to LF line endings that all unix tools
>>>expect.  You
>>>>>want binary mounts if this is not what you desire.  See
>>>the FAQ for
>>>>>more info...
>>>>
>>>>I think that this is a regression of "od", though.  It probably should
>>>>use binmode by default.
>>>
>>>I would tend to agree, but how would you change this default if
>>>desired?
>>>
>>
>>?  By one of the two ways God intended when he gave Moses POSIX:
>>
>>1.  O_BINARY 2.  "rb"
>
>Umm, that's not what I think of as "by default".  I call that
>"hardcoded".  "Default" implies to me the possibility of changing
>without recompile/relink.

That is a very strange implication...

cgf

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