Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use O_BINARY to detect whether to pass "rb" to popen

[cowan]

Filipe Brandenburger scripsit:

> Tested it on a Linux/glibc system and on Windows and cygwin.

Text mode on Cygwin is pretty much a dead duck by now.  Given
a simple "r" or "w", Cygwin will assume text mode only if
(1) the pathname is in Posix format, (2) the path is on a
mounted file system rather than one beginning /cygdrive, (3)
the file system is explicitly mounted in text mode (which is
never the default).  Otherwise, text mode is only obtained
with the explicit and non-standard "rt" and "wt" open flags.
So Cygwin applications, like other Posix applications, mostly
have to take care of newlines themselves, either by a
universal-newline convention or in some other way.

See <https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html>.

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