I'm using the following sequence of actions to reproduce this problem:
---------------- C:\test>bash bash-2.05b$ echo "Test" >/c/test/test1.txt bash-2.05b$ echo "Test" >c:/test/test2.txt bash-2.05b$ ls -l total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 vvysotsk mkpasswd 6 Oct 10 19:49 test1.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 vvysotsk mkpasswd 6 Oct 10 19:49 test2.txt bash-2.05b$ ----------------
Since drive C: is mounted in text mode (mount -f -s -t "c:" /c), both test1.txt and test2.txt are 6 bytes long ('T', 'e', 's', 't', 0x0D, 0x0A). This is with cygwin1.dll version 1.3.2.
However, when I install cygwin1.dll version 1.5.x, test2.txt is only 5 bytes long, ending with just 0x0A:
---------------- C:\test>bash bash-2.05b$ echo "Test" >/c/test/test1.txt bash-2.05b$ echo "Test" >c:/test/test2.txt bash-2.05b$ ls -l total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 vvysotsk PCUsers 6 Oct 10 19:48 test1.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 vvysotsk PCUsers 5 Oct 10 19:48 test2.txt bash-2.05b$ ----------------
In other words, text mode is ignored if Windows-style path is specified.
I'm concerned about this behavior because it breaks some 3rd party tools that I'm using. In particular, a C compiler chokes on multiline macros. As a result, I have to juggle between 1.5 (for normal usage) and 1.3 (for running the tools that I've mentioned).
Could somebody please look into fixing this or suggest a workaround?
Best regards, Vlad
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