From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6904 invoked by alias); 5 Apr 2018 13:25:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 6892 invoked by uid 89); 5 Apr 2018 13:25:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: mout.gmx.net Received: from mout.gmx.net (HELO mout.gmx.net) (212.227.15.18) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:25:12 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.129] ([37.201.195.115]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003 [212.227.17.190]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MF4iR-1fJBpm1r1n-00GEQf for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:25:09 +0200 Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 13:25:00 -0000 From: Johannes Schindelin To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com Subject: Re: winpty injection In-Reply-To: <20180405084733.GP2833@calimero.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <20180405084733.GP2833@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.1 (DEB 209 2017-03-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:SkV9uLJsvLY=:xk0Jg8LhLJnfqWxITo7qpg h0okpdtElWMsv71yyKOMfvxOgqHlTkQxaFQQxfozSGLkaanfs+Z/slM4TzxNoEOEcVmSvKWFs 9muiI7JQFhWsQZdIARzRUYSm8o18VBxzrw5NHQvTbsmsYZPLPsq1gtlU/yU5QO7r//2YdMtAA eUpnswtgK7g7yJUClapYxQuUpnoDTHv6uWCp4YBUIia0fwA4rj33MVKCE06FVdEngjexvYlhT Gj7py4Vh5wEIxe1tkTGVMXVsqXVYhml8zUjoT6ASk3cAj0IFQo7/vyBX0GsABiBC82PacQ/pg c6p0iopMr/MqLTJ8r78Cu5uF0BKN7t5hNqL1cbnbYJW7rjelfngCjBUK1fP7R2jSumAlEH86x r3G2zoDL+WTpFP1IVwyDfJ6OiY0AlBn7w9eGD8pSQJfN0eV7SD4LiulXfsp2XpUB7Cc5jhleR L0X9YhuQ/rdrcSp53QMVbqoaWGGHSvwKek2JfkKF8sKR0xrk5BETlmq0sc7CofkPrc0uZXtGd P3rwh+jvO0FFqwnlyy3bW0d69uyD1lgbnZmUjZHQkNYrzxSnMIz+lQGmQ7LOegEN1RepKfFIZ jrN52uBNa8hFNsAsEL5IzVvIFy2CFiMNAo5HSDnVnixHhLPthWgpNzR6328SyKcNbpGpttO/6 nsTmXHvzbGHFaC4DPq7UZgew1uXImAretGcLn69mAx1E5bskM8lKCHOnthm0Lz2R/eVxdn+gk /M8b359F2Pr3V74nXVGMYRg0Zo9AGfuxxS+ZFFRDRyvAnpZxw7YcrfXSkPXRFNH4DP9tqjTW/ 9Xc83ilGlnIqqEX2IJ+eJMtc2Q/hUaKugWhbZ6ac+Izx/tHBET2Qg9khcPUvPZsXMAKPVkm X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-04/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 Hi Corinna, On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 4 19:07, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > * As some people may object such a magic (and it might in fact raise > > unexpected problems), it could also be made dependent on a setting in the > > CYGWIN environment variable. > > Nah. If it improves the situation, nobody will complain. However, it > may slow down calling native Windows apps considerably when used a lot > from scripts. We suggest `winpty` quite a bit in Git for Windows' bug tracker. And it is not without problems... for example, when calling Maven in MinTTY via `winpty mvn`, the `TERM` variable is still set as appropriate for MinTTY, and consequently, the color codes of Maven's output show up as ugly special characters... Ciao, Dscho