Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin
Steven Brown
swbrown@ucsd.edu
Mon Apr 17 03:27:00 GMT 2006
Steven Brown wrote:
> Steven Brown@FICTITION ~/src
> $ cat << EOF | file -
> > foo
> > EOF
> /dev/stdin: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
[...]
> Is this by design or a bug? It seems like the wrong thing for it to be
> doing.
The cause of this is apparently /tmp being a textmode mount. If
switched to binary, cat << EOF works as expected. Is that really what's
supposed to happen? It doesn't seem right that a system configured to
act binmode is going textmode just due to using '<< EOF' syntax.
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