>
> Apparently you did not get a chance to comment on the change to
> vms.c:mybinmode() that was made quite a while ago.
Well,
I was happy to get something that was at least running,
(over two 2 years ago, it was during the writing of my second perl script i
found that i needed binmode()
with a twist that it explicitly ruled out.
In needed to run binmode() on stdin. (cgilib).
So i modified the mybinmode and everything worked.
Then i got the perl source from a friend as i had
no easy link with the internet to do bulky transfers.
(Cablemodem does change things....;-)
>
> For anyone who relies on the current behavior of
> VMS::Stdio::binmode() we
> could copy that code into a new xs routine. For illustration
> let us say
> that we turn what is the current VMS::Stdio::binmode() into a new xs
> routine called instead VMS::Stdio::oldbinmode(), then we could add your
> "ctx=bin" to the freopen in a new VMS::Stdio::binmode() and you'd be able
> to write your cross platform scripts in manner that you'd like. Anyone
> who was dependent on the old behavior would need to call oldbinmode()
> rather than binmode().
>
> Does anyone object to such a change? Can anyone suggest a better name
> than "oldbinmode()", "binmode_sans_ctx_bin()", "binmode_with_ctx_bin()",
etc...?
legacy_binmode( ;-) The term 'legacy' at least seems to
be appropriate in this case. Problem with a name change means
that in the main script at leas something needs to appear like
sub binmode {
legacy_binmode(@_);
}
to prevent changes to loaded modules. ?
regards,
Nico
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