From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30722 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2013 05:49:15 -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 30697 invoked by uid 89); 26 Jul 2013 05:49:15 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from Unknown (HELO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.72) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 05:49:15 +0000 Received: from pool-173-48-46-190.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([173.48.46.190] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1V2atn-00093J-Gn for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 05:49:07 +0000 Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF4560143 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 01:49:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/P83pibOrbWaffZpKGL2NF Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 06:44:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: BLODA extension: console interoperability Message-ID: <20130726054906.GC477@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <51F1A863.8060403@etr-usa.com> <51F1AF90.3080409@cygwin.com> <51F1F7B4.4060202@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SW-Source: 2013-07/txt/msg00570.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 05:44:02AM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >On 26 July 2013 05:14, Warren Young wrote: >> On 7/25/2013 17:06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> >>> I might personally prefer to describe and list them differently. >> >> >> DONOPWOL: >> >> DOes >> NOt >> Play >> Well with >> Others >> List > >I don't think that's fair, since such apps were designed for the >Windows console, without being aware of Cygwin's pipe-based ptys. And >unfortunately that list would be very long anyway: basically anything >interactive that hasn't been explicitly adapted to Cygwin ptys, for >example by disabling buffering and not relying on the console's >history facility. > >Speaking of which: somebody on the mintty mailing list would like to >make a Windows program Cygwin-aware by detecting whether it's running >in a Cygwin terminal (as opposed to having its input or output >redirected to plain pipes). Does anyone know a way to do this? Why not just always flush stdout if it's opened on a pipe? 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