From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 114870 invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2018 23:53:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 114852 invoked by uid 89); 12 Aug 2018 23:53:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=HX-Google-Smtp-Source:uWPw, Hx-languages-length:458 X-HELO: mail-it0-f53.google.com Received: from mail-it0-f53.google.com (HELO mail-it0-f53.google.com) (209.85.214.53) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 12 Aug 2018 23:53:32 +0000 Received: by mail-it0-f53.google.com with SMTP id s7-v6so10324833itb.4 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2018 16:53:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:openpgp:autocrypt:to:subject:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BFUSoSWbPsNlFdzEgKLzC4OWcMVoWEIMmUCaOKF1oTE=; b=BhcMXopooaszyInA3PHIqizQ2G3yOfI3UJr1qXrCdS9eAOlzOseuFlJV9pta6WQxyx llcDbyS+lcoMBoxGFJlMmmwVsq0rdavyaHBLUG9T65sGl9xYJ1bFBJM+fJ1T12x00MBu fEuhoMmAD1VMvQwOYr/GVPk/m3YjWPJixVx1d5VqHBv8rNwJAwpgkBSkx9yRUa5YS1U7 x/CxeCqeBxSz3f0zKjd0mWTRGSPxwe8H4dbhDCdrRk953nHpYeIM1ifaHDCCcNc17vs3 wpZ0O1+RhW2LuqoLcdyLR+XLgLy+1l8M0GNvY68rlkKkWHINW8rq07EVad3siUwXqEFz LmzA== Return-Path: Received: from [192.168.0.16] ([69.47.131.109]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y21-v6sm5114612ioa.54.2018.08.12.16.53.29 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 12 Aug 2018 16:53:30 -0700 (PDT) From: cyg Simple Openpgp: preference=signencrypt To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: Documentation for cygwin-console-helper.exe Message-ID: <1b1fd757-dd11-72a7-cc2c-7280d89a0500@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 23:53:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-08/txt/msg00134.txt.bz2 The documentation for cygwin-console-helper.exe is missing, not even a --help function. No comments in the source code. Only a code.google page for mintty[1] was beneficial to allow me to understand it and then it was a late entry comment that sort of explained the purpose. I will revisit this issue with a source code patch to add comments. [1]https://code.google.com/archive/p/mintty/issues/39 -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple