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Re: Broken stdio using sh.exe?
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Broken stdio using sh.exe?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:19:24 -0500
- References: <0056890023357703000002L932*@MHS>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:10:33PM +0100, robert.jan.schutten@philips.com wrote:
>I was under the impression that the reading of text or binary mode of pipes and
>non-file devices is controlled by setting CYGWIN to binmode ar nobinmode
>(where the default is binmode), see the Cygwin User's Guide:
>http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html#AEN669
>rule c, which states:
>" Pipes and non-file devices are opened in binary mode, except if the CYGWIN
> environment variable contains nobinmode."
>
>If there is the intention to change bash to work like sh works now, then I am in trouble....
>Also this seems to contradict the rule mentions in the Cygwin User's Guide.
bash != cygwin
sh != cygwin
The default for the Cygwin DLL has nothing to do with the decisions that a
program like bash or ash may make for its defaults.
cgf
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