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how to force pipes into binary mode?
- To: Frank Baumgart <godot at uni-paderborn dot de>
- Subject: how to force pipes into binary mode?
- From: "Richard Y. Kim" <rkim1 at san dot rr dot com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 19:53:06 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <3537AEEE.33F3E0BC@uni-paderborn.de>
- Reply-To: rkim at ElectronicDNA dot com
>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Baumgart <godot@uni-paderborn.de> writes:
Frank> So, how do I force my pipes which have been created with
Frank> pipe() to work in binary mode?
Get
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/gnu-win32-b19/usertools-src.tar.gz
This includes the source for _bash_.
In the bash subdirectory, find the file execute_cmd.c,
In this file, search for the definition of do_piping().
You will see 3 instances of
#ifdef __CYGWIN32__
setmode (0, O_TEXT);
#endif
in this function. I believe taking out all three sets of code reverts
_bash_ back to the "correct" setting. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I want to thank Larry Hall <lhall@rfk.com> for pointing out where to
find above code when I had the same question as Frank.
Frank> Or better: are there any patches or even cygwin32.dll
Frank> available working in binary mode generally? (pipes doing
Frank> text-mode translation is so stupid!)
I could not agree more based on my personal experience. I tried out
gnu-win32 about two years ago. I dropped it right away, because of
problems which I now think were due to text mode pipes. I did not have
the time nor the incentive to figure out what was going on then. I
gave gnu-win32 another shot about a year ago. I dropped it again after
couple of days due to similar problems. This is my third time
around. This time, I spent more time. With the help of people on
gnu-win32 mailing list, I now understand what I need to do to use
gnu-win32.
I hope that Cygnus people take out the code they put in to force text
mode pipe in _bash_ in the next release of gnu-win32.
Richard Y. Kim
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