On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:36:16AM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Now on a normal UNIX system open(2) *always* by definition does > binary IO. But Cygwin's text mount option tries to make UNIX > programs DOS-friendly by making all files treated as text, even if > it supposedly doing binary IO via open(2). > > I think its a mis-feature of Cygwin. Git has no way (that I know > of) to defend itself from this, other than to tell the user to make > sure they only store a Git repository in a location that is mounted > with the binary flag. Cygwin, like Windows' own open(2) simulation, defines an O_BINARY to pass as a flag to open(2). I once got Git half-working on Cygwin text-mode mounts by doing a horrible hack approximating: #define open(name, flag, ...) \ open(name, (flag) | O_BINARY, ## __VA_ARGS__) But it only half worked. Eventually it managed to corrupt itself again, and worse, the test suite was completely hopeless, as all shell activity still results in text-mode files. -bcd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
