Re: Propose a change in open for passing in the file type.

["Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 02:46:04PM +0000, Haritha D wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Am working on porting git to z/OS. For reference, the pull request am working on https://github.com/git/git/pull/1537.
>
> On z/OS there is a notion of file tag attributes. Files can be tagged as binary, ASCII, UTF8, EBCDIC, etc. z/OS uses these attributes to determine if auto-conversion is necessary. It was recommended in PR that we add logic directly to xopen . In order for me to do this in xopen , I have to pass an extra parameter to xopen that specifies the file type. 
>  
> Ex:
> xopen(output_file, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC, 0666);
>
> To :
> xopen(output_file, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC, 0666, BINARY);
>
> BINARY: would be an enum value.
>
> Would this be okay to do? Or are there other recommendations?

I think that the suggestion was to embedd the BINARY thing into xopen(),
not to all callers of xopen().

If you have this type of special handling for one specific OS,
call it quirks, if you want, they are better placed in an own file.

Please see e.g. compat/mingw.c as an example, how things are solved
for Git for windows.
Then there are some include files, which re-define things like open(),
if needed.

Another example could be
compat/win32/dirent.c

Where exactly things are placed, is may be a matter of taste,
that may be decided later.
In your case a file like
compat/z_os.c and z_os.h may make clear what this is about to everybody.




>
> Best regards
> Haritha
>
>