Re: [BUGS] 0x1A in control file on Windows

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> I had a chat with Heikki about this, and the proper way to fix it.
>>
>> Should there actually be any reason not to *always* open our files with
>> O_BINARY? That seems to be what should mimic what Unix does, which would
>> be what we expect, no?
>>
>> If that is so, then I propose we do that for 8.4, and just backpatch the
>> O_BINARY flag to these two locations for 8.3 and 8.2. Thoughts?
>>
>>
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> ISTR there are a few places where we want CRLF translation (config files?)

These seem to be using fopen() (through AllocateFile()), which wouldn't
be affected by this.


> I'd be fairly conservative about making changes like this.

This is why my proposal would be not to backpatch such a change, but to
only do it for 8.4.

//Magnus