Pserver on cygwin corrupts binary files
Alejandro Lopez-Valencia
dradul@etb.net.co
Wed Feb 18 12:25:00 GMT 2004
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:01:09 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote in
<20040218100109.GG18953@cygbert.vinschen.de>:
>On Feb 17 18:16, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:
>> Because when using textmode, cygwin changes the semantics of I/O
>> functions in the underlying C runtime. It does (and forces) EOL
>> conversion on all files read and written to the filesystem as well as
>> *sockets* and *pipes* for all applications compiled with the runtime.
>
>Nope. Sockets reads and writes are always binary.
>
>Corinna
Thanks for ether correction. But wasn't that the case a couple of
years back?
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