On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: > Greetings, Orgad Shaneh! > >> 1. The gawk info page states that: > >>> Under MS-Windows, > ------------^^^^^^^ >>> 'gawk' (and many other text programs) silently >>> translates end-of-line '\r\n' to '\n' on input and '\n' to '\r\n' on >>> output. > >> and on Feb 8 the following section was added: > >>> Recent versions of Cygwin open all files in binary mode. This means >>> that you should use 'RS = "\r?\n"' in order to be able to handle >>> standard MS-Windows text files with carriage-return plus line-feed line >>> endings. > >> This breaks compatibility between different gawk versions. What were >> the reasons for this change in cygwin, and why was it pushed upstream? > >> 2. Git and other tools automatically convert text files to CRLF on >> Windows. > --^^^^^^^ > > Cygwin is not "Windows", it is "sort of Linux". > Besides, this kind silent mangling is dangerous to an unsuspecting user.
I see. This is however not true for MSYS2. Then I guess we will just keep this as a patch for MSYS2, which is already merged[1]? [1] https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/commit/c81d882b9838f8245603c7a8d5f8845eeadd6c2a - Orgad -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
