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Re: [Bug-tar] creat-safer vs. text mode platforms


From: Joerg Schilling
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] creat-safer vs. text mode platforms
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:17:22 +0100
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Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On non-POSIX platforms like cygwin, where text mode can be distinct from
> binary mode, creat() will create a text-mode file.  But in tar, this is
> the wrong thing to do, since text mode corrupts the binary archive.
> Should we replace all uses of "creat (name, mode)" (such as in
> creat-safer.c) with "open (name, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_BINARY,
> mode)", with O_BINARY properly defined to 0 on POSIX systems?  This would
> make no difference in semantics to POSIX platforms, only where binary is
> distinct from text.

star does not use creat() and I believe application should not use creat()
if a three parameter open() is available.

Thank you for the hint!

Jörg

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