0003265: Unix.open_flag is missing O_BINARY and O_TEXT

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2004-11-10 18:49

2005-02-02 16:55

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0003265: Unix.open_flag is missing O_BINARY and O_TEXT

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Full_Name: George Necula
Version: 3.08.1
OS: cygwin
Submission from: raw.cs.berkeley.edu (128.32.153.230)

Hi,

I tracked down a bug in the Unison file synchronizer, which was using
Unix.openfile to copy a binary file. I could not fix the bug easily because
Unix.open_flag is missing O_BINARY. There is a workaround (use the standard IO)
but I wonder why is O_BINARY missing. It would be useful in cygwin, and can be
ignored otherwise.

Thanks,
George.

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(0000238) administrator (administrator) 2005-02-02 16:55	Cygwin is the only system where BINARY and TEXT mode need to be applied at the Unix level (the native windows ports need them only at the channel level). I'll leave this as a feature wish for the time being, but I don't like the idea of polluting the API just for Cygwin. XL, 2004-02-02

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