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Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> It's a constraint of the native Windows applications. There's no
> PTY concept in Windows so Cygwin uses pipes to emulate the behaviour.
> Cygwin applications know when they are running in a pty, native apps
> don't and behave differently if their stdio descriptors are connected
> to pipes.
>
> Bottom line: We just *can't* gurantee ...
OK. I understand. Thanks.
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