Hi Paul,
> > OK, so tee.c, tr.c etc. ought to contain the equivalent of:
> >
> > if (! isatty (STDIN_FILENO))
> > setmode (STDIN_FILENO, O_BINARY);
> > if (! isatty (STDOUT_FILENO))
> > setmode (STDOUT_FILENO, O_BINARY);
This code snippet is what we would have to write in every program,
IF THERE WAS NO GNULIB.
> That sounds overly complicated. Can't we arrange to have something
> simpler, like what we have now?
>
> xset_binary_mode (STDIN_FILENO, O_BINARY);
> xset_binary_mode (STDOUT_FILENO, O_BINARY);
>
> The idea is that tee.c, tr.c, etc. should not have to worry about
> calling isatty.
Yes! This is already how the coreutils code looks like, and what I propose
is a patch to gnulib ONLY [1]. It does NOT require changes to coreutils.
Bruno
[1] the second half of
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2019-05/msg00168.html
