[PATCH] open O_TEXT and O_BINARY for cygwin/windows

[Ville Herva]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:09:43PM -0600, you [Dave Dykstra] wrote:
>
> I think I'll go ahead and put in your patch with the modification of using
> O_TEXT_STR as you suggest.  

Thanks.

> I think the risk is low.  

I think so, too.

> I had been concerned that perhaps older CPPs might not be able to handle
> that syntax, but I see other places in the rsync code that are depending
> on it so I think it's OK.

I think it is standard C, but OTOH looking at for example
http://www.chris-lott.org/resources/cstyle/portableC.pdf
reminds that not all ancient C preprocessors are compliant. But, with such
ancient beast, I think a lot of other things would break, too.


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