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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
May 21, 2003 04:06
Subject:
Re: Meaning of sysread()
Message ID:
20030521130344.0E3B.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl
On Wed 21 May 2003 12:52, Nick Ing-Simmons <nick.ing-simmons@elixent.com> wrote:
> Some of you may have been aware that Sarathy and I have been trying to
> resolve meaning of sysread(). perl5.8.0 breaks some legacy Win32
> code which expects sysread() to do CRLF translation (not on sockets...)
>
> Yesterday it became clear reason we were confused is that Sarathy and I
> were working from different 'specs'.
>
> perlfunc.pod and Camel 3rd-edition seem to disagree on fundamentals.
>
> I would like to solicit opinions from perl5-porters on reasons for
> leaning one way or the other.
read: characters
sysread: bytes
but I may easy be convinced to anything else given the right reasons :)
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