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Diffstat (limited to 'txr.1')
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@@ -37845,10 +37845,19 @@ argument is different under .code open-socket from other functions. Because sockets are almost always used for bidirectional data flow, the default mode string is -.str r+ +.str r+b rather than the usual .strn r . +Rationale for including the +.str b +flag in the default mode string is that network protocols are usually defined +in a way that is independent of machine and operating system, down to the byte +level, even when they are textual. It doesn't make sense for the same \*(TX +program to see a network stream differently based on what platform it is +running on. Line ending conversion has to do with how a platform locally stores +text files, whereas network streams are almost always external formats. + Like other stream times, stream sockets are buffered and marked as no non-real-time streams. Specifying the .str i |