Re: WMIC

[Christian Franke <Christian dot Franke at t-online dot de>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> Bruno Galindro da Costa wrote:
>   
> > Christian,
> >
> >    It Works perfectly for both! Can you explain why that commands
> > works and not only "wmic cpu list full"?
> >     
>
>   

The wmic.exe file imports console functions like SetConsoleMode() and 
SetConsoleScreenBufferSize() from kernel32.dll. I presume that wmic 
performs some direct console I/O which conflicts with Cygwin's tty. This 
can be prevented by redirecting the standard input. But then wmic 
creates an empty file 'TempWmicBatchFile.bat' in current directory ...


> > > The following works for me in Cygwin console (notty, tty, and mintty) on
> > > XP:
> > >
> > > $ echo '' | wmic cpu list full
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > $ wmic cpu list full </dev/null
> > >       
>
>   So, are some of you guys using a DOS console, and some using
> rxvt/xterm/whatever gui console?
>
>   

There is no difference in this case. Wmic hangs in Windows console, 
mintty, rxvt and xterm if run without redirection from a Cygwin shell.


--
Christian Franke


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