From: lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca   
      
   On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:54:02 +0800, Paul Edwards wrote:   
   [snip]   
   > When the ELF executable is run on PDOS/386, I will   
   > have no way of knowing that this open is text, and   
   > thus PDOS/386 (the OS) should add CRs whenever it   
   > sees a LF.   
      
   ISTM that you are looking at this from the wrong end.   
      
   POSIX open() does not make a distinction between a "text"   
   and a "binary" file; all files are "binary". Programs   
   (including Linux programs) that are coded to the POSIX   
   standard already accommodate this. So, any code you port   
   from a Linux environment (either source code or ELF   
   executable) is already in a state to read and write   
   a binary file. Given this, then there is no need for   
   an O_TEXT flag for a Linux program, as no Linux program   
   expects open() to provide special conditions for text   
   data.   
      
   Given this, there only one problem to resolve: how to   
   allow for text data to be interchanged transparently   
   between the MSDOS/Windows side of your PDOS/386 and   
   the Linux side.   
      
   And, that's not the problem you are chasing ATM.   
      
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