1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/client/mysqlbinlog.cc b/client/mysqlbinlog.cc
index ab94c415db7..660be6bce50 100644
--- a/client/mysqlbinlog.cc
+++ b/client/mysqlbinlog.cc
@@ -1360,6 +1360,21 @@ static int dump_local_log_entries(const char* logname)
   }
   else // reading from stdin;
   {
+    /*
+      Windows opens stdin in text mode by default. Certain characters
+      such as CTRL-Z are interpeted as events and the read() method
+      will stop. CTRL-Z is the EOF marker in Windows. to get past this
+      you have to open stdin in binary mode. Setmode() is used to set
+      stdin in binary mode. Errors on setting this mode result in 
+      halting the function and printing an error message to stderr.
+    */
+#if defined (__WIN__) || (_WIN64)
+    if (_setmode(fileno(stdin), O_BINARY) == -1)
+    {
+       fprintf(stderr, "Could not set binary mode on stdin.\n");
+       return 1;
+    }
+#endif 
     if (init_io_cache(file, fileno(stdin), 0, READ_CACHE, (my_off_t) 0,
 		      0, MYF(MY_WME | MY_NABP | MY_DONT_CHECK_FILESIZE)))
       return 1;