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Re: Binary read on textmode mount
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:40:12 -0500
- Subject: Re: Binary read on textmode mount
- References: <Pine.CYG.4.58.0411051050240.3688@Crunch.bcgssbd.sciatl.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:26:31AM -0500, Shaffer, Kenneth wrote:
>I have a program doing a binary read on a file which happens to exist on a
>textmode mount and find that once a ctrl-Z (0x1a) byte is read, it doesn't
>read the rest of the file since ctrl-Z is a DOS EOF.
>
>The program is compiled with -mno-cygwin and adds no additional libraries
>on the compile line. cygcheck on the executable show:
>
>Found: .\corinfo.exe
>Found:
>e:\projects\RebootAnalysisTools\LogAnalysisTools\LogAnalysisTools\corinfo.exe
>corinfo.exe
> C:\WINNT\system32\msvcrt.dll
> C:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.dll
> C:\WINNT\system32\NTDLL.DLL
>
>Anyway, wondering if the stopping on EOF even though performing a binary
>read on a file existing on a textmode mount is normal behaviour.
>
>Should I change all my mounts to binary? If so, what problems might
>arise? I've been burned in the past with mount modes and would suggest
>that the FAQ maintainer write something up about it.
Why would you expect a windows (-mno-cygwin) program to be cognizant of
cygwin mounts? If you are having problems with reading data in a purely
windows program then cygwin is not involved in any way.
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