On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 05:16:26PM +, Eric Blake wrote:
>Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes:
>>gzip is linked with binmode.o, like most of the things that I maintain
>>(i.e., no upstream patch really necessary - isn't that my call?). If I
>>use a really simple test case of just outputting
Eric Blake byu.net> writes:
> But I thought at one point I had patched dd to
> default to binary unless you used oflag=text; I'll have to investigate.
Shoot. The dd logic when [io]flag= omits both 'binary' or 'text' in 6.9-3 is:
[io]f= unspecified - no change to existing mode of std{in,out}
i
Hugh Secker-Walker merl.com> writes:
> Interestingly, I had tried popen("gzip | dd of=outputfile", "wb") as a
> lower-level way to avoid what I guessed was a problem with gzip using
> the stdout. The dd attempt didn't work. This failure suggests to me
> that dd and gzip experience a similar pro
On 23 July 2007 19:10, Dave Korn wrote:
> Yeh, 'cat' is special: it absolutely guaranteed 100% always always always
> uses bin mode, regardless of mount type, stdio mode, shell
> direction/redirection/misdirection and indeed anything else at all.
Ho hum. Let me correct myself: regardless
On 23 July 2007 19:03, Hugh Secker-Walker wrote:
> Interestingly, I had tried popen("gzip | dd of=outputfile", "wb") as a
> lower-level way to avoid what I guessed was a problem with gzip using
> the stdout. The dd attempt didn't work. This failure suggests to me
> that dd and gzip experience a
Eric Blake byu.net> writes:
> Hugh Secker-Walker merl.com> writes:
>
> > I'm having trouble getting correct behavior on a third-party OpenSource
> > project that I'm building using Cygwin. The problem involves the
> > writing of corrupt data to a file. The output file is created and
> > writt
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes:
>
> gzip is linked with binmode.o, like most of the things that I maintain
> (i.e., no upstream patch really necessary - isn't that my call?). If
> I use a really simple test case of just outputting directly to a text
> mode mount, it works fine.
binmode.
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 03:42:55PM +, Eric Blake wrote:
>Hugh Secker-Walker merl.com> writes:
>
>> I'm having trouble getting correct behavior on a third-party OpenSource
>> project that I'm building using Cygwin. The problem involves the
>> writing of corrupt data to a file. The output fi
Hugh Secker-Walker merl.com> writes:
> I'm having trouble getting correct behavior on a third-party OpenSource
> project that I'm building using Cygwin. The problem involves the
> writing of corrupt data to a file. The output file is created and
> written via popen("gzip > outputfile", "wb")
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