Steve Peters via RT wrote:
>>[quietdragon - Fri Nov 05 15:59:26 2004]:
>>
>>This is a bug report for perl from earl_chew@agilent.com,
>>generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.5.
>>
>>
>>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>>[Please enter your report here]
>>
>>Perl v5.8.5 does not correct set cygwin binmode when dealing
>>with STDOUT vs a disk file:
>>
>>	binmode STDOUT;
>>	print "Hello\n";
>>
>>Perl v5.6.1 does not have this problem:
>>
>>perl foo.pl > foo.txt ; od -c foo.txt ; ls -l foo.txt
>>
>>	0000000  H e l l o \r \n	# Perl 5.8.5-3 Cygwin 1.5.11
>>	-rw-r--r--  1 earl  mkpasswd   7 Nov 4 11:10 foo.txt
>>
>>
>>	0000000  H e l l o \n		# Perl 5.6.1-2 Cygwin 1.3.10
>>	-rw-r--r--  1 earl  mkpasswd   6 Nov 4 11:14 foo.txt
>>
>>
>>	0000000  H e l l o \n		# Perl 5.6.1-2 Cygwin 1.5.11
>>	-rw-r--r--  1 earl  mkpasswd   6 Nov 4 11:14 foo.txt
>>
>>The file sizes reported by ls confirm the extra \r reported by od.
>>
>>This problem can also be reproduced by using on a text mount:
>>
>>perl -e 'open OUT,">q.txt";binmode OUT;print OUT "Hello\n"'
>>perl -e 'binmode STDOUT;print STDOUT "Hello\n"' > q.txt
>>
>>The output in q.txt (held on a text mount) differs between the
>>two invocations. This is described in more detail in:
>>
>>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00192.html
>>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00198.html
>>
>>and in the thread beginning:
>>
>>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00131.html
>>
> 
> 
> I was not able to repliate this problem with the stock Cygwin Perl on
> the Cygwin/XP environment.
> 
> $ perl foo.pl > foo.txt ; od -c foo.txt ; ls -l foo.txt
> 0000000   H   e   l   l   o  \n
> 0000006
> -rw-r--r--    1 STEVE   group        6 Nov 12  2004 foo.txt

It fails when you are doing this in a textmode mounted direcotory.

`mount | grep sandbox' shows what?

IOf not textmode mounted, please try again after:

$ mount -s -f -t X:/home/STEVE/sandbox /home/STEVE/sandbox

Gerrit
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