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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2009-03-18 14:05:45 +0300 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2009-03-18 14:05:45 +0300 |
| commit | 1233ba242b90cf38d1b2cab3e6d7c429eecf877d (patch) | |
| tree | ed7edf25c75a6adebcda1c473147bc549f6382c5 /winsup/doc/overview2.sgml | |
| parent | 2e13058eac2e58bc9b081fe6d93bcdd6314a815a (diff) | |
* overview2.sgml: Remove reference to CYGWIN=binmode.
* textbinary.sgml: Ditto. Rephrase certain paragraphs to match
Cygwin 1.7 behaviour. Add popen(3) and pipe(2) behaviour. Make
quite clear that binmode is preferred. Add *mode.o files to
description for developers.
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/doc/overview2.sgml')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/overview2.sgml | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml b/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml index 203e32578..220cf1acb 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ Win32 paths containing drive letter and/or backslashes as well as UNC paths <sect2 id="ov-hi-textvsbinary"><title>Text Mode vs. Binary Mode</title> <para>Interoperability with other Win32 programs such as text editors was -critical to the success of the port of the development tools. Most Red Hat +critical to the success in the early days of Cygwin. Most Red Hat customers upgrading from the older DOS-hosted toolchains expected the new Win32-hosted ones to continue to work with their old development sources.</para> @@ -258,8 +258,8 @@ the fly by Cygwin into a single newline when reading in text mode.</para> violating the POSIX standard that states that text and binary mode will be identical. Consequently, processes that attempt to lseek through text files can no longer rely on the number of bytes read as an accurate indicator of position -in the file. For this reason, the CYGWIN environment variable can be -set to override this behavior.</para> +in the file. For this reason, Cygwin allows to choose the mode in which to +read a file in several ways.</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="ov-hi-ansiclib"><title>ANSI C Library</title> |