From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4846 invoked by alias); 9 May 2011 20:00:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 4837 invoked by uid 22791); 9 May 2011 20:00:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm7-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com (HELO nm7-vm0.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com) (98.139.91.192) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Mon, 09 May 2011 20:00:27 +0000 Received: from [98.139.91.65] by nm7.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 May 2011 20:00:26 -0000 Received: from [98.136.185.44] by tm5.bullet.mail.sp2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 May 2011 20:00:26 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 May 2011 20:00:26 -0000 Received: from cgf.cx (cgf@98.110.183.157 with login) by smtp105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 09 May 2011 13:00:26 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 873454A801A for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 16:00:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 20:00:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why? Message-ID: <20110509200025.GA10705@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20110509161028.GJ27739@calimero.vinschen.de> <4DC818D3.3020602@sidefx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DC818D3.3020602@sidefx.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 X-SW-Source: 2011-05/txt/msg00099.txt.bz2 On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 12:39:47PM -0400, Edward Lam wrote: >On 5/9/2011 12:10 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Chris and I are wondering how many people are using the Windows console >> as local console window in CYGWIN=tty mode and why. > >I'm not but there's various references to it it the web about it being >requires for Emacs. eg. >http://blog.arithm.com/2007/12/01/killing-cygwin-emacs/ I hope that >these references are outdated with Cygwin 1.7? > >The other references to it I see are about requiring tty mode for sshd. >This is also for historical reasons but I'm not sure if we still need it >in Cygwin 1.7. We have never needed tty mode for sshd. There is a web site which suggests (suggested?) it but it is mistaken. cgf -- 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