in reply to Ram file bug?


I guess that it is a bug since the behaviour is different than when opening a physical file.

Out of curiosity, is there any particular reason that you need to open an in-memory filehandle in ':raw' mode? I would have imagined that it would have been the behaviour anyway, even on Windows.

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Re^2: Ram file bug?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 16, 2006 at 10:37 UTC
    I would have imagined that it would have been the behaviour anyway, even on Windows

    Actually, that was exactly what I was trying to verify when I encountered the bug. Any normal file opened without specifying ':raw' gets ':crlf' by default. I just wanted to confirm that if I wrote to a ram file, then wrote the result to disk that I wouldn't get the crlf translation twice.

    Instead, I got nothing at all :)

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      You proabably know that you can use open to change the defaults
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        You proabably know that you can use open to change the defaults

        Actually, I didn't. Thanks for bringing it up, I don't recall having seen it mentioned here before.

        That said, it doesn't appear to affect this particular case as it seems it only applies to the 2-arg varient on open and/or the STD* handles.

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