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mkstemp on cygwin creates binary files

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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 6657 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> CS.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: bug#6657: mkstemp on cygwin creates binary files
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:19:34 +0200

On 07/18/2010 01:54 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> By the way, newer cygwin provides mkostemp() - did you only fix the
> problem for older cygwin that lacks mkostemp and thus gets the gnulib
> fallback that doesn't force binary?

mkostemp also forces binary?  That's a bug IMO, since the caller can 
tell Cygwin if it wants binary or text.

> And what's wrong with using
> setmode() (from<io.h>, or from gnulib's "binary-io.h") on the fd
> created by mkstemp() to ensure the desired mode, rather than having to
> use mkostemp?

I want the default type given by the mount point (using the mount type 
of /tmp is fine), can I get that?

Paolo

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