Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: pty: Rename input named pipes.

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

Hi Takashi,

On Mar 21 12:59, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> - Currently, the name of input pipe is "ptyNNNN-from-master" for
>   cygwin process, and "ptyNNNN-to-slave" for non-cygwin process.
>   These are not only inconsistent with output pipes but also very
>   confusing.
>   With this patch, these are renamed to "ptyNNNN-from-master-cyg"
>   and "ptyNNNN-from-master" respectively.
> ---
>  winsup/cygwin/fhandler_tty.cc | 2 +-
>  winsup/cygwin/tty.cc          | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Actually... wouldn't it make more sense to call the Cygwin pipe

  pty%d-from-master / pty%d-to-slave

and the non-Cygwin one something like

  pty%d-from-master-nat / pty%d-to-slave-nat

?

After all, Cygwin is the norm, and non-Cygwin is the exception.

On second thought, this would also make sense for thr fhandler methods,
i. e.

  get_output_handle / get_output_handle_cyg

vs.

  get_output_handle_nat / get_output_handle

Probably the fhandler stuff is too much renaming for this release,
but we should do this for the next one, I think.


Thanks,
Corinna