On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:01:09 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> >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?
The textmode mount flag affects neither pipes nor sockets, and never did.
There is a "(no)binmode" $CYGWIN setting that affects pipes, but I'm not
sure if it also affects sockets.
Igor
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