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Re: popen on unices doesn't like "rb"/"wb"

by Bill McClain :: Rate this Message:

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On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:46:05 -0500
JAN OBER <ober.14@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> between dvdauthor 0.6.11 and 0.6.13, the popen in
> src/compat.c got the 'b' read flag, most likely to
> make it work in windows. This makes pipes fail
> miserably on unices (does for me on FC6), with
> an "Invalid Argument" given by popen.
>
> It's been long since I mucked in what's
> configure-dependent folk's recipe-du-jour to
> dealing with that. So I leave the proper solution
> to the wise. Myself, I simply made an updated rpm
> with "rb" replaced with "r", as I don't run it on
> anything but unices.
>
> Cheers, Kuba
>

Thanks for that! This caught me when using k9copy, which uses dvdauthor in
pipes.

-Bill
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