Hi/2.

2014-11-18 13:36 GMT+09:00 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>:

> That patch doesn't look right to me.  First, the "#if MSDOS" and "#if
> defined(__OS2__)" sections of code have a lot in common, and this common
> part shouldn't be duplicated.


Ok.


> Second, it really should be using the binary-io module, as I mentioned
> earlier.


No problem. But any special reasons why binary-io module of gnulib should
be used instead of pre-existent SET_BINARY_MODE() ? In addition,
SET_BINARY_MODE() is being used already.


> Third and most important, whether a file descriptor should be placed into
> binary mode ought to be a function of whether binary data is being read or
> written, not whether the file is a terminal.  Not every use of "tar" writes
> binary data to stdout.
>

Ok.

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