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Re: cygdrive
- To: John Wiersba <John dot Wiersba at medstat dot com>, 'cygwin' <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: cygdrive
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 07:32:44 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- John Wiersba <John.Wiersba@medstat.com> wrote:
> A recent posting led me to check the binmode-ness of /cygdrive. It appears
> that the cygdrive feature overrides the setting of CYGWIN (which I have set
> to binmode) ?? How can I force files on cygdrive to be read in binmode?
>
The binmode CYGWIN setting is only used to control pipes and redirection. The
solution would be to correct the winsup code and submit a patch. IMO, the
default for /cygdrive should be set to the default mode of / (which may be the
cause already FATIK).
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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