From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.homelinux.net>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: always O_BINARY?
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:08:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738wlhq2v.fsf@neil-laptop.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vc9ij5z0.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:39:47 +0100")
Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Just thinking aloud here -- Windows has this O_BINARY thing that
> translates CRLF to LF when reading, and LF to CRLF when writing. It
> seems to me to be a useless thing. We already have our own i/o
> abstractions and should deal with CRLF vs LF in Scheme, I think:
>
> The (newline) function can write CRLF
> The ~% format directive should DTRT
> read-line should DTRT
>
> And since all of our hackers have been on POSIX systems, we're used to
> there being no O_BINARY/O_TEXT distinction.
>
> So, what do you think about always adding O_BINARY to files that Guile
> opens?
Maybe look at what Emacs on Windows does? I would guess it has the same
question, and probably the same answer as you've suggested.
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-24 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-24 11:39 always O_BINARY? Andy Wingo
2013-02-24 12:08 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2013-02-24 16:55 ` Mike Gran
2013-02-24 21:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-02-28 3:24 ` Adding new information to scm_t_port (was Re: always O_BINARY?) Mark H Weaver
2013-02-28 8:53 ` Andy Wingo
2013-02-28 11:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-02-28 13:09 ` Andy Wingo
2013-03-01 9:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-05 18:55 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-03-27 20:00 ` [PATCH] Add private port structure, and move iconv descriptors there Mark H Weaver
2013-03-27 20:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-27 20:51 ` Andy Wingo
2013-03-27 21:11 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-03-31 7:52 ` [PATCH] Add internal-only port structure; " Mark H Weaver
2013-03-31 13:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-31 15:23 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-03-31 22:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-01 18:57 ` Andy Wingo
2013-04-01 20:03 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-04-01 20:54 ` Andy Wingo
2013-04-01 21:04 ` Andy Wingo
2013-03-31 19:44 ` [PATCH] Add private port structure, and " Mark H Weaver
2013-03-31 22:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-01 19:04 ` Andy Wingo
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