From: Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Improve pseudo console support.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 20:40:26 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210122204026.06a4ef5454034b4de6a52291@nifty.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210122095028.GC810271@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:50:28 +0100
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 22 05:58, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> > The new implementation of pseudo console support by commit bb428520
> > provides the important advantages, while there also has been several
> > disadvantages compared to the previous implementation.
> >
> > These patches overturn some of them.
> >
> > The disadvantage:
> > 1) The cygwin program which calls console API directly does not work.
> > is supposed to be able to be overcome as well, however, I am not sure
> > it is worth enough. This will need a lot of hooks for console APIs.
>
> Definitely not. We should really not cave in to such expectations.
> Cygwin apps are POSIX apps in the first place and should use the API
> provided by Cygwin and other Cygwin libs. Yes, there are border cases
> like the X server or cygrunsrv, but these are limited and should stay
> limited.
I agree. I will stop working on it.
--
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-22 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-21 20:58 Takashi Yano
2021-01-21 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] Cygwin: pty: Inherit typeahead data between two input pipes Takashi Yano
2021-01-21 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] Cygwin: pty: Keep code page between non-cygwin apps Takashi Yano
2021-01-21 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] Cygwin: pty: Make apps using console APIs be able to debug with gdb Takashi Yano
2021-01-21 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] Cygwin: pty: Allow multiple apps to enable pseudo console simultaneously Takashi Yano
2021-01-22 9:50 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Improve pseudo console support Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-22 11:40 ` Takashi Yano [this message]
2021-01-22 12:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-01-25 9:37 ` Takashi Yano
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