Re: always O_BINARY?

[Neil Jerram]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Just thinking aloud here -- Windows has this O_BINARY thing that
> translates CRLF to LF when reading, and LF to CRLF when writing.  It
> seems to me to be a useless thing.  We already have our own i/o
> abstractions and should deal with CRLF vs LF in Scheme, I think:
>
>   The (newline) function can write CRLF
>   The ~% format directive should DTRT
>   read-line should DTRT
>
> And since all of our hackers have been on POSIX systems, we're used to
> there being no O_BINARY/O_TEXT distinction.
>
> So, what do you think about always adding O_BINARY to files that Guile
> opens?

Maybe look at what Emacs on Windows does?  I would guess it has the same
question, and probably the same answer as you've suggested.

       Neil