[libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] Always open files in binary mode in virFDStreamOpenFileInternal

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Sep 24 10:16:39 UTC 2013


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:57:38AM +0200, Claudio Bley wrote:
> On win32, using text mode for binary files might result in short
> reads since ASCII character 0x1A is interpreted as EOF. Also, it
> could lead to problems using the seek functions because of the \r
> handling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Claudio Bley <cbley at av-test.de>

What did you do to hit this problem ?  AFAIK the virFDStream code
isn't useful on Windows at all, since it requires the iohelper
process and we haven't got that working on Windows.

Daniel
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