From: Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>
To: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Cc: Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>,
tim@tjansen.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /proc format (was Device Registry (DevReg) Patch 0.2.0)
Date: 25 Apr 2001 17:58:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34rvcy73o.fsf@belphigor.mcnaught.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01042522404901.00954@cookie> <200104252116.QAA46520@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> <20010425235000.A3432@werewolf.able.es>
In-Reply-To: "J . A . Magallon"'s message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:50:00 +0200"
"J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> writes:
> Question: it is possible to redirect the same fs call (say read) to different
> implementations, based on the open mode of the file descriptor ? So, if
> you open the entry in binary, you just get the number chunk, if you open
> it in ascii you get a pretty printed version, or a format description like
There is no distinction between "text" and "binary" modes on a file
descriptor. The distinction exists in the C stdio layer, but is a
no-op on Unix systems.
-Doug
--
The rain man gave me two cures; he said jump right in,
The first was Texas medicine--the second was just railroad gin,
And like a fool I mixed them, and it strangled up my mind,
Now people just get uglier, and I got no sense of time... --Dylan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-25 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-25 17:10 Device Registry (DevReg) Patch 0.2.0 Dan Kegel
2001-04-25 18:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-25 18:55 ` /proc format (was Device Registry (DevReg) Patch 0.2.0) Tim Jansen
2001-04-25 19:19 ` Dan Kegel
2001-04-25 23:09 ` Tim Jansen
2001-04-25 19:37 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-04-25 20:08 ` Dan Kegel
2001-04-25 20:40 ` Tim Jansen
2001-04-25 21:16 ` Jesse Pollard
2001-04-25 21:50 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-04-25 21:58 ` Doug McNaught [this message]
2001-04-25 22:03 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-04-25 22:24 ` Marko Kreen
2001-04-25 22:42 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-25 22:24 ` Mark Hahn
2001-04-26 14:06 ` Tim Jansen
2001-04-25 22:46 ` Tim Jansen
[not found] <200104252056.PAA44995@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
2001-04-25 21:10 ` Dan Kegel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-26 1:09 Dan Kegel
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