[Gnu-arch-users] Re: PATCH: tla on cygwin (works!)

[Greek0]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:19:41 +1100
Robert Collins <address@hidden> wrote:

> For now, remount your system in binary mode.

Thanks for the tip, it works now. Thanks to Lode for his patch too.

> Lode, you need to make all the file open calls in tla explicitly
> binary. hackerlab is probably the right place to do this. Tom and I
> had a discussion waaay back about exposing this to hackerlab clients,
> and we didn't come to an agreement - the ascii/binary schism is pretty
> darn yucky at the best of times.

Well, would it be ok to just open files in O_BINARY mode per default, if
you are on windows?
A little patch in vu-sys.c:vu_sys_open() should do it.


Greetings, 
Greek0