How to set stdin mode to binary in Java?

Question

What is the equivalent of this C++ line of code in Java, which sets stdin mode to binary:

_setmode(_fileno(stdin),_O_BINARY);

Thanks.

Answer 1

None. _setmode(_fileno(stdin),_O_BINARY); on Windows is used to switch from text mode to binary mode, which prevents \n from being replaced with \r\n when reading input.

System.in is a generic InputStream, whose read method returns the next byte, without assuming anything about the type of input:

Reads the next byte of data from the input stream. The value byte is returned as an int in the range 0 to 255. If no byte is available because the end of the stream has been reached, the value -1 is returned. This method blocks until input data is available, the end of the stream is detected, or an exception is thrown.

Therefore there is no need for "disabling" text mode, as it was never "enabled" in the first place.

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If you're not convinced by the contract, just read the source code and you will see that binary mode is activated (for stdin, stdout and stderr) when the JVM initialized: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/hotspot/file/34aea5177b9c/src/os/windows/vm/os_windows.cpp#l3716:

void os::win32::setmode_streams() {
  _setmode(_fileno(stdin), _O_BINARY);
  _setmode(_fileno(stdout), _O_BINARY);
  _setmode(_fileno(stderr), _O_BINARY);
}