Re: stdin in binary mode under Windows - how?

[mascarenhas@...]

There's an lfs.setmode function in Kepler's LuaFileSystem which is
used by the WSAPI launchers. A caveat is that LuaFileSystem has to use
the same C runtime as the Lua DLL for it to work.

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Fabio Mascarenhas

On 9/9/08, Dr. Markus Walther <walther@svox.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using a Lua 5.1. CGI script to handle HTTP POST-based file uploads
> under Windows/Apache. The script reads blocks of data from stdin until
> EOF, and strips multipart boundaries.
>
> Since stdin is set to text mode, I am losing all carriage returns that
> were present in the original file before upload.
>
> Question: Is there an easy way to change stdin to binary mode under Windows?
>
> --Markus
>
> PS: I briefly studied Kepler sources and _if_ I didn't overlook
> something, there is no provision against this problem as well.
>


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Fabio Mascarenhas