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Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin


On Jan  8 16:03, Jeenu V wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Jeenu V <jeenuv@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Christopher Faylor
> > <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >
> >> screen uses ptys.  ptys are equivalent to CYGWIN=tty.
> >>
> >> We really don't guarantee that pure Windows applications will work with
> >> ptys.
> >
> > Hm... looks like I've to live without cmd.exe from screen.
> > Anyway,.thank you guys for the support and help.
> >
> 
> And can this be guaranteed in future versions of Cygwin? Or is it
> something constrained by screen?

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 ...


Corinna

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