# HG changeset patch
# User Patrick Mezard <pmezard@gmail.com>
# Date 2011-05-07 19:12:35
# Node ID 34ec9b313638b8930cec1dc77149893b5b892895
# Parent  f4766e1bb0b35616b05fe45dd92b8dfd6ae5d2b5

util: make readfile() operate in binary mode

writefile() and appendfile() are already working that way.

diff --git a/mercurial/util.py b/mercurial/util.py
--- a/mercurial/util.py
+++ b/mercurial/util.py
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ def makedirs(name, mode=None):
     makedirs(name, mode)
 
 def readfile(path):
-    fp = open(path)
+    fp = open(path, 'rb')
     try:
         return fp.read()
     finally: