Subject: Re: bug#14821: Build broken on 64-bit Cygwin starting with bzr revision 113315

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:17:26 +0300

> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 08:33:03 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
> 
> But the point is that setmode shouldn't be used on Cygwin

Why not?  What if the volume in question was mounted in text mode?
And even if it wasn't, wouldn't setmode be a no-op?