1.5.24: incorrect default behavior of dd in popen context on text-mounted filesystem

[Hugh Secker-Walker]

> >Yes, in my rush to try out the modified dd I did not notice that
> >cgf had quietly fixed the binary issue in gzip.  So, thank you to
> >cgf for so quickly fixing the original problem.
> 
> It wasn't "quietly":
> 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2007-07/msg00028.html
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00615.html
> 
> You just weren't paying attention.

I had read both of those.  Neither of those, nor the referenced
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00680.html or
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2007-04/msg00041.html
mentions a fix for text/binary mode of files.  So AFAICT that
particular issue was quietly fixed.

-Hugh

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