From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:36:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-genrandom: ensure stdout is set to _O_BINARY on Windows
Message-ID: <7vws3svjel.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4AB72CA2.1020808@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
>
> Commit a6ca8c62 (Set _O_BINARY as default fmode for both MinGW and MSVC)
> removed the definition of _CRT_fmode from mingw.c. Before this commit,
> since test-genrandom is linked against libgit.a, the MinGW process
> initialization code would pick up that definition of _CRT_fmode, which was
> initialized to _O_BINARY. After this commit, however, text mode is used
> for std(in|out|err) because it is the default in absence of _CRT_fmode.
> In order to fix that, we must use git-compat-util.h, which overrides
> main() to set the mode to binary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> ---
>  Unfortunately, this change in an updated patch 04/15 of the MSVC series
>  went to the Big Void. ;)

Thanks.