RE: repository conversion on windows fails / binary file

> From: Greg Stein [mailto:gstein@lyra.org]
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 10:10:22PM +0200, Branko Cibej wrote:
> >...
> > The solution is to reopen the streams in binary mode, obviously. I
> > wonder how you do that in APR.
>
> Pass APR_BINARY to the apr_file_open() function. Not a problem.
>
> Of course, it appears that apr/file_io/win32/open.c doesn't even look
for
> that flag :-(

That is a pretty major bug. :-(

>
> Hmm. And reopening stdout/stdin in binary mode... oof. No fricking
clue.

We don't do that currently. You really only have two options as things
stand today. 1) Close the file and re-open. 2) Implement
apr_file_reopen (which devolves to option #1 in the worst case
scenario).

Ryan

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Received on Wed Jun 12 00:36:36 2002