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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