On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Hudec, Jan wrote:
Hello Folks,
Greetings, Jan,
I have a program (actually a cygwin program -- git-fast-import) that
reads commands from standard input and absolutely needs the stream to be
binary (byte counts to be read are included in some commands). However,
zsh forces it's input to text mode both when I run:
git-fast-import < file
and
cat file | git-fast-import
despite me having all the mounts set to binary and CYGWIN=binary. How do I
explain to zsh, that pipes and read redirections to commands must be binary?
I believe it's "binmode", not "binary".
Anyway, I can't seem to repro your symptoms.
I've created a binary file and can both direct input to, or pipe it via
cat, to 'od -xc' and it looks correct to me.
Try this:
In bash:
$ od -xc < /bin/zsh.exe > od.bash
In zsh:
$ od -xc < /bin/zsh.exe > od.zsh
$ ls -al od.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 doctor None 23550 Dec 4 21:06 od.bash
-rw-rw-r-- 1 doctor None 23550 Dec 4 21:06 od.zsh
$ sum od.*
23760 23 od.bash
23760 23 od.zsh
Works for me!
If 'od' can get a binary stream, then so should your program.
Try using cat for your input and see if it fixes it for you:
cat file | git-fast-import
Note, that zsh used not to do this and bash is not doing it either.
Don't know what to tell you. Nothing has really changed in this area.
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