By giving the "t" flag to _fdopen() on Windows, the file will be opened in a "translate mode", where it will take care of converting \n to \r\n, and also look for the CTRL-Z mark when opening the log file in append mode.
Reference: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dye30d82%28VS.80%29.aspx> Thanks to Alon Bar-Lev for pointing out this solution. Reported-by: Thomas Reifferscheid Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <dav...@redhat.com> --- error.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/error.c b/error.c index 873718c..887f2d0 100644 --- a/error.c +++ b/error.c @@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ redirect_stdout_stderr (const char *file, bool append) /* open log_handle as FILE stream */ ASSERT (msgfp == NULL); - msgfp = _fdopen (log_fd, "w"); + msgfp = _fdopen (log_fd, "wt"); if (msgfp == NULL) msg (M_ERR, "Error: --log redirect failed due to _fdopen"); -- 1.7.2.3