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Re: A question for Corinna


On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:16:29AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 11:03:02PM -0600, Matthew Smith wrote:
> >Sorry, what I'm trying to ask, is if Corinna's patches to tcsh were
> >unneccessary?
> 
> I don't know.  I was asking Corinna this question.
> 
> >You're saying that all she had to do was build tcsh from the original
> >sources, then link with automode.o?
> 
> I was asking her if this would work.  Since she knows about automode.o,
> et al, I assume that she had a reason for not using it.

Yes, I had reasons. automode.o forces O_TEXT on read - which is good -
and O_BINARY on write - which is not good for a shell AFAICS. As I
mentioned in my previous post stdout, stderr and their redirections
should implicitely set to what the output determines. If the output is
a redirection, then it should be the mode of the underlying mount point.

This doesn't undermine the sense of texmode.o, binmode.o and automode.o
in general but I didn't see the sense here.

Corinna

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