Re: Text tools, line endings, and O_TEXT

[John Cowan]

Eric Blake scripsit:
> John Cowan <cowan <at> ccil.org> writes:
> 
> > Are you saying that an O_TEXT open under Cygwin, given a binary mount,
> > will cause newline translation?  I had assumed that O_TEXT would be
> > ignored under Cygwin just as it is under Linux.
> 
> Yes.  The cygwin behavior is as follows:

Okay.  I see why you do that, but it does kinda undermine the argument
that "Cygwin should behave like Linux", since this is a conspicuous
example of it *not* behaving like Linux.

> Using O_BINARY is important, however, I claim that using O_TEXT in portable 
> code should be a very rare circumstance.  There's a reason that C99 only 
> calls 
> out fopen("r") and fopen("rb"), but not fopen("rt").

Okay, fair enough.

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