Re: cvs: php4 /ext/standard exec.c

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > SS>> The `b' should be ignored by all STDIO implementations which > SS>> don't differentiate between text and binary files. Did you > SS>> find an implementation which does not behave correctly? > > I've read source of glibc popen. And there it compares popen argument to > be "r" or "w" only. One character. It doesn't work otherwise. And yes, > I > was bitten by this - I don't usually enjoy reading glibc sources without > good reason, call me boring on that :) According to SuS II, the behaviour of the implementation is undefined, if the application specifies non-standard characters in the type argument to popen(). In plain English, you probably will get a segfault on Solaris, so that the change is valid. Nevertheless, it looks like the mode "rb" should work with the current glibc code (2.2 CVS) and glibc-2.1.3, because the 'b' is ignored. - Sascha