Re: proc suggestion

From: Tuukka Toivonen (tutoivon@mail.student.oulu.fi)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 14:24:49 EST


On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:

> P.S. GlibC allows "b" flag to fopen and friends as ANSI specification requires.
> It does nothing with it: there are no binary vs text mode concept in Linux

Glibc could have some code to check for the "b" flag, and if present, it
could pass some extra flag to the "open" system call. However

- it could break many existing user space programs
- it would add even more bloat to the proc filesystem

so i don't think it is that good idea.

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