Re: Opening stdin/stdout in binary mode on Windows - Mailing list pgsql-hackers-win32

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Opening stdin/stdout in binary mode on Windows
Date
Msg-id 200502021835.j12IZux04890@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Opening stdin/stdout in binary mode on Windows  ("Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com>)
List pgsql-hackers-win32
Merlin Moncure wrote:
> Bruce wrote:
> > Well, that is a nifty trick.  Great to have that solved with no
> > documentation changes required.
> >
> > Without this fix we were going to have tons of headaches.
>
> This is pretty standard m.o. in porting unix applications to win32, or
> even in console mode win32 apps that need to support binary redirection.
> I almost suggested this (setmode), but stupidly assumed it must have
> been attempted and discarded for reasons unknown at an earlier time :-).

I had never heard of it before.

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