C reading (from stdin) stops at 0x1a character

Question

currently I\'m implementing the Burrows-Wheeler transform (and inverse transform) for raw data (like jpg etc.). When testing on normal data like textfiles no problems occur.

Answer 1

Use read() to read in the data.
Since you are interested in getting data from the stdin, use

fd = fcntl(STDIN_FILENO, F_DUPFD, 0);

to obtain the fd of stdin.

More info here.

The issue has something to do with the fact that windows treats 0x1a a.k.a. CTRL+Z as the EOF. As Earlz pointed out, opening it in binary mode fixes this on windows and works on linux too.