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
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Should we replace all uses of "creat (name, mode)" (such as in
> creat-safer.c) with "open (name, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_BINARY,
> mode)", with O_BINARY properly defined to 0 on POSIX systems?
That might make sense for some instances of creat, bu
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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 binary archive.
Should we replace all uses of "creat (n
