Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] [Mingw-msys] bash input buffering

[Gianluca S. <gi...@gm...>]

On 3/14/07, Cesar Strauss <ces...@gm...> wrote:
> Keith MARSHALL wrote:
> > Thanks for the patch, Howard.
> >
> > This may have been better directed to the MinGW-dvlpr list, or
> > even better still, the patch tracker, but no matter.  I'll leave
> > it to Cesar to approve; subject to that, you may commit it.
> >
>
> I recall this being discovered and discussed on the Cygwin list:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/81560/focus=81585
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.announce/1545
>
> The issue apparently is an inability to seek reliably when opening a
> file in text mode. Migrating to binary mode broke many users' scripts
> out there with DOS line terminations, which flooded their mailing list
> (they warned their users in advance, though).
>
> This merits further analysis to see if it MSYS is also affected.
>

I also reported something similar lately about c++ streams:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/21667

definetely something to be investigated before applying the patch to a
release build