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Re: Reading too few bytes

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> 	    int fd = ::open( "ESLF", O_RDONLY );

In the absence of O_TEXT or O_BINARY, open() on cygwin chooses the mode of
the underlying mount point but mingw always uses O_TEXT.

> Here's the contents of a small biinary file "ESLF" (printed in hex bytes):
> 
> 	54 39 CA 1A 44

0x1a (ctrl-z) in a text file is Windows EOF.  Read binary data in binary
mode if you want all the bytes.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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