Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/20/2013 11:30 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> >> Developers are assumed to have up-to-date systems where -Werror is
> >> appropriate.
> >
> > Frankly, I cannot imagine a situation where treaing a warning as an
> > error can be appropriate. That's why I
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On non-POSIX platforms like cygwin, where text mode can be distinct from
> binary mode, creat() will create a text-mode file. But in tar, this is
> the wrong thing to do, since text mode corrupts the binar
"Sergey Poznyakoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Thanks for the diagnosis, but the fix isn't quite right in general,
> > since the C standard says memcpy can set errno as well.
> >
> > I installed this patch instead, both in gnulib and coreutils.
>
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