From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com, Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: Pseudo console support in PTY
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 11:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58a92b8b-f121-a185-0e8f-7906f79430f6@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190403080222.GU3337@calimero.vinschen.de>
On 03.04.2019 10:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 3 09:55, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Am 03.04.2019 um 09:27 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>>> On Apr 3 09:18, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>> Am 02.04.2019 um 19:50 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>>>>> On Apr 2 19:16, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>>>> Am 02.04.2019 um 13:02 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>>>>>>> Hi Takashi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mar 30 22:08, Takashi Yano wrote:
>>>>>>>> Patch 0003: Support pseudo console in PTY. With this patch,
>>>>>>>> native console applications can work in PTY such as mintty,
>>>>>>>> ssh, gnu screen or tmux.
>>>>>> I've now tried your patched binaries on two systems. On one they don't run,
>>>>>> on the other I saw no noticeable effect, particularly no impact on the
>>>>>> pty/console interoperability...
>>>>> Try starting cmd from your shell in mintty and do some native stuff.
>>>> I've now self-compiled cygwin dll on a third system and can run a cygwin
>>>> console.
>>>> But the build process did not generate the cygwin-console-helper, maybe
>>>> that's the reason why mintty does not start?
>> Can you give a hint that enables me to test the patch?
>>
>>>>> You'll notice two differences:
>>>>>
>>>>> - cmd history works
>>>> In the cygwin console, it does not, echos the cursor-up escape sequence
>>> Oh, right, ...
>>>
>>>> instead. See my previous comment that I think ConPTY should only be applied
>>>> if running at a pty. (And for other reasons only when starting a non-cygwin
>>>> app.)
>>> but you got that wrong. The conpty stuff *is* only applied for ptys.
>> So cygwin running as cygwin console still sets up a pty?
> Still? It never did. Call tty in a console and you get /dev/consX.
Misunderstanding, didn't mean "still", sorry.
> The ConPTY stuff only runs if the application requests a pty.
OK, but I think it should additionally be restricted to running
non-cygwin apps.
By the way, when I previously reported the patch to have no effect, that
was on a Windows 7 system, so of course it couldn't, sorry :/
Still failing to test the patch in mintty on Windows 10...
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-03 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-30 13:08 Takashi Yano
2019-03-30 19:47 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-30 19:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-30 23:07 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-03-31 14:38 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-31 15:00 ` Takashi Yano
2019-04-02 11:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-04-02 17:16 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-04-02 17:51 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-04-03 7:18 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-04-03 7:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-04-03 7:55 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-04-03 8:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-04-03 11:33 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
2019-04-03 12:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-04-04 4:17 ` Takashi Yano
2019-04-04 8:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-04-04 4:15 ` Takashi Yano
2019-04-03 16:36 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] Pseudo console support in PTY (v2) Takashi Yano
2019-04-03 16:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] Cygwin: pty: add pseudo console support Takashi Yano
2019-04-03 16:50 ` [PATCH v2 0/1] Pseudo console support in PTY (v2) Corinna Vinschen
2019-04-04 5:27 ` Takashi Yano
2019-04-04 8:17 ` Thomas Wolff
2019-04-04 9:34 ` Takashi Yano
2019-04-03 17:11 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-04-04 8:59 ` Takashi Yano
2019-04-04 10:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-04-06 11:13 ` [PATCH v3 0/1] Pseudo console support in PTY (v3) Takashi Yano
2019-04-06 11:14 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] Cygwin: pty: add pseudo console support Takashi Yano
2019-04-06 17:43 ` [PATCH v3 0/1] Pseudo console support in PTY (v3) Corinna Vinschen
2019-04-12 10:22 ` [PATCH v4 0/1] Pseudo console support in PTY (v4) Takashi Yano
2019-04-12 10:23 ` [PATCH v4 1/1] Cygwin: pty: add pseudo console support Takashi Yano
2019-04-12 12:29 ` [PATCH v4 0/1] Pseudo console support in PTY (v4) Corinna Vinschen
2019-04-15 8:18 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-04-15 23:17 ` Takashi Yano
2019-04-14 15:23 ` [PATCH v5 0/1] Pseudo console support in PTY (v5) Takashi Yano
2019-04-14 15:23 ` [PATCH v5 1/1] Cygwin: pty: add pseudo console support Takashi Yano
2019-04-15 8:38 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-04-16 0:41 ` Takashi Yano
2019-04-16 9:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-06-24 10:53 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-07-25 14:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-08 19:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-12 12:07 ` Takashi Yano
2019-08-12 12:50 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-12 14:36 ` Takashi Yano
2019-04-14 16:06 ` [PATCH v5 0/1] Pseudo console support in PTY (v5) Takashi Yano
2019-04-16 1:49 ` Takashi Yano
2019-04-16 1:51 ` Takashi Yano
2019-04-06 21:33 ` [PATCH v3 0/1] Pseudo console support in PTY (v3) Thomas Wolff
2019-04-07 5:05 ` Takashi Yano
2019-04-07 12:02 ` Takashi Yano
2019-04-07 21:21 ` Thomas Wolff
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