Thread: Pipe is in text-mode?

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    Pipe is in text-mode?

    Hello,

    I'm having more troubles with win32 pipes, this is what I'm doing:
    • Creating a pipe for a child process's stdout
    • Launching the child process with the stdout pipe inherited (to the parent)
    • Reading from the pipe (using ReadFile), ie the child process's stdout and writing it to a socket


    However, it seems that the data I read from the pipe is in text-mode? eg LF is translated into CRLF. I'm unsure if it's being converted on the child process, or the parent process - I guess the parent. So how do I read it in binary mode? I've search MSDN & IRC for hours

    This is the source: http://pastebin.com/m2409ff53 the area in which I read from the pipe is highlighted.

    Thanks in advance.

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    It is the C library functions that do character translation before writing to the OS stdout handle.

    You can change stdout to use binary mode to avoid character translation.

    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...f8(VS.80).aspx
    http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/binary

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    Yeah, I gathered that. Just I was wondering how a webserver would work with CGI? Unless it's in text-mode anyway? Can't I force the inherited handle to be in binary-mode or something?

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