Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] qga: distinguish binary modes in "guest_file_open_modes" map

[Peter Maydell]

On 7 May 2013 18:27, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 05/07/2013 10:56 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> In Windows guests this may make a difference.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
>> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden>

> Oh, and only NOW do I notice that this is in a file named
> commands-posix.c that doesn't get compiled into the Windows build of qga
> (there, we only build commands-win32.c, and THAT file always fails this
> command, because no one has ported guest-file-open there yet).  But I
> guess there is still the argument that some weirdnix system exists that
> isn't quite POSIX compliant and does have a distinct binary mode (maybe
> someone plans on compiling qga for Cygwin instead of native windows,
> since at least that would be able to open files when the
> commands-win32.c variant doesn't?), so I still think the patch is worth
> keeping.

If we accept this we should at a minimum update the
commit message to say that we're doing this for
theoretical completeness rather than any practical reason.
(Not that "this may make a difference" is a particularly
convincing commit message in the first place :-))

thanks
-- PMM