RE: New sed in latest

[Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de>]

Hi Chris,

what about something like CYGWIN=force_binary for those who need it?
If you change od, I'd like that and/or --binary, since I routinely use
od -c to check for \r.
Do you have another suggestion how to find out (from e.g. bash) actual
line endings
present in input/output files or pipes for not (yet) text/binary smart
programs?

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Faylor [SMTP:cgf@cygnus.com]
> Sent:	Friday, June 02, 2000 20:24
> To:	cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject:	Re: New sed in latest
> 
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 08:11:41PM +0200, Pierre.Humblet@eurecom.fr
> wrote:
> >On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:48:39 -0400, Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
> wrote:
> >>You have my guarantee that when the cygwin mailing list is filled
> with
> >>the plaintive cries of people who are trying to process their binary
> >><snip>
> >
> >The current plaintive voices are about a textmode processing bug in
> the
> >dll.  Masking that bug by making applications like sed ignore \r even
> >on binary mounted systems is only a reasonable TEMPORARY (band aid)
> >measure.  Until now users mounting binary file systems had the
> >assurance that the tools would behave as on Unix.  That was great, I
> >hope it will come back.  Otherwise do you plan to keep on "fixing"
> more
> >applications?  awk (for one) is also "broken" by \r\n :
> >
> >bash-2.04$ awk 'NF > 1' /u/hello.txt bash-2.04$ mount -b -f u:/ /u
> >bash-2.04$ awk 'NF > 1' /u/hello.txt hello bash-2.04$
> >
> >(hello.txt contains "hello \r\n")
> 
> Yes.  I plan on fixing more applications.  In fact, awk is next on my
> list.
> 
> This change was only partially motivated by the recent broken DLL.  We
> have always had many many many complaints about "sed not working".
> The
> 1.1.1 DLL just aggravates the potential problems with binmode versus
> textmode processing.  The problem won't go away when the DLL is fixed.
> 
> You may have noticed that we've recently made similar modifications to
> ash and bash.  I also expect that we will be making modifications to
> applications like 'od' which do not set binmode appropriately.
> 
> Of course, the wonderful thing about all of this is that this is free
> software.  You don't have to use it.  Anyone can build their own
> version
> of sed which, theoretically, is able to process a binary file.  It's
> not
> that hard at all.
> 
> cgf
> 
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