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RE: apparent bug: incorrect file position after write()
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 19:39:57 -0600
- Subject: RE: apparent bug: incorrect file position after write()
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of imaginate
> australiamail.com
> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 3:26 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: apparent bug: incorrect file position after write()
>
> >
> > Brian Dessent wrote:
> >
> > > If > you don't want that, then don't use textmode mounts.
> >
> > ...or open the file with O_BINARY.
> >
>
> Mounting binary solves the problem - I wasn't aware of that
> functionality. O_BINARY is probably not so portable so I'll
> steer clear of that.
>
> Cheers for the help.
>
O_BINARY is POSIX. Use it. Do this if you have to:
#ifndef O_BINARY
#define O_BINARY 0
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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