Selective opening mode to extract file hash #778
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The pull request #744 solved the issue #42 by opening files in binary mode.
This change leaves the behaviour of Linux binaries unaltered, but makes the file integrity monitoring in Windows to read properly binary files. Unfortunately I discovered that it makes the reception of merged.mg to fail in Windows.
In order to make both elements to work, it's necessary to insert a parameter on every call to file hashing functions. So, OSSEC will only read files in binary mode at Syscheck routines.