On Sep 8 23:12, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > From: Corinna Vinschen > [snip] > > You should not mount the whole Cygwin tree in textmode, it > > will always give trouble when you expect it the least. > > I've had everything mounted as text for years, and the only trouble I've > ever had is not related to the existence of textmode mounts, but to programs > that erroneously assume all text files are '\n' xor '\r\n', as I've stated > in my previous post on this subject. Text mounts have *saved* me untold > amounts of trouble; that's why they exist at all in the first place! I > can't begin to understand where you're coming from there; I am certainly a > counterexample to the statement, and I doubt I'm the only one. > > > Just > > mount home dirs or something as textmode, but even then > > refrain from it as much as possible. > > Why? Certainly mixing the two mount modes is going to result in problems > when you forget things work differently in one mount than in another. > > > There are tools out there to convert line endings, for > > instance d2u and u2d. I bet, if you count the cases where > > the conversion is necessary, you will be surprised how > > _seldom_ it's necessary. > > Any program that doesn't open all files, except text files, with "rb", is a > counterexample to this. > > Again, I 100% share the notion that text mounts should not be necessary. > But when even such basic apps as tar get this wrong, I simply don't see how > anybody can realistically entertain the idea that eliminating them will > somehow solve any problems.
You're a lucky guy that you don't have problems with textmode mounts but from my point of view, CRLF lineendings are just insane and dealing with them in libraries and applications is a real PITA. Dunno how you work, but I for one use native Win apps only if it's totally unavoidable. I certainly don't use a native Win32 editor as long as I have vim and I certainly don't create textfiles with CRLF lineendings in them. If I get those files, my first action is to convert them to LF. However, that's getting cygwin-talk fodder. So please move any further discussion there. Reply-To set accordingly. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
