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Re: 1.7.5 cannot bg mintty


On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:32:23PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
>(There's also another issue with the ^Z not taking effect immediately
>due to signal handling being disabled while mintty waits for Windows
>events, but that would require some fairly major restructuring to fix,
>so leaving that for later. Looking at rxvt, the right thing to do is a
>select() on the pty device and /dev/windows instead of mintty's
>current approach using multiple threads and
>MsgWaitForMultipleObjects.)

...assuming that still works.  I wonder if anyone has used that
interface in the last few years.

But, then, I dunno.  Maybe rxvt uses it.

cgf

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