Subject: [PATCH] base64: always treat input in binary mode

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:23:00 -0600

Necessary for cygwin.  Technically, this patch is not correct,
in that it clobbers O_APPEND, but it is no different than any
other use of xfreopen to force binary mode, so all such uses
should be fixed at once in a later patch.

* src/base64.c (main): Open input in binary mode.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Yutaka Amanai.
---

> base64 doesn't call freopen() nor setmode() against stdin, and doesn't
> give "rb" flag to fopen(). So, base64 sometimes fails to encode data
> correctly on some environment. For example, zsh on Cygwin forces stdin
> to be text-mode.

Thanks for the report.  I'll commit this later today if there are no
objections; it should have no impact for any platform that does not
have O_BINARY, and although it is not perfect on Cygwin, it is not
too much to add to my workload for creating the cygwin port of coreutils
8.5.  And someday I'll get around to creating the new gnulib interface
for gracefully enforcing binary streams without clobbering O_APPEND.

 src/base64.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/base64.c b/src/base64.c
index 34569ec..41e9dea 100644
--- a/src/base64.c
+++ b/src/base64.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include "xstrtol.h"
 #include "quote.h"
 #include "quotearg.h"
+#include "xfreopen.h"

 #include "base64.h"

@@ -289,10 +290,14 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
     infile = "-";

   if (STREQ (infile, "-"))
-    input_fh = stdin;
+    {
+      if (O_BINARY)
+        xfreopen (NULL, "rb", stdin);
+      input_fh = stdin;
+    }
   else
     {
-      input_fh = fopen (infile, "r");
+      input_fh = fopen (infile, "rb");
       if (input_fh == NULL)
         error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", infile);
     }
-- 
1.6.6.1