Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hallo Max, > >>>> Since Cygwin runs on Windows and Windows is a DOS system the PERLIO >>>> layer crlf is default. > >> Ugh. Some of use Cygwin to *escape* Windows! > >> Is there any way to tell perlio "just let the system (i.e. cygwin) handle >> things"? >> That would be a nice default. > > I need to patch the sources to do this, but it is no major problem, > I'm already testing with the patched version and it seems to be the > best solution to make no_crlf the default for Cygwin, it is also no > problem then to pull it in everytime it is needed with PERLIO=crlf. > > This will save me a lot of trouble responding to the questions why > Perl writes CRLF by default and that it breaks scripts. I guess to > support the other five guys who want Perl to actually write CRLF's > will be easier;)
I know very little about perlio, but wouldn't defaulting to stdio cause Perl to obey Cygwin mount modes? Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
