From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Documentation for cygwin-console-helper.exe
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180813144529.GN3747@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <165ec576-622d-a33a-9e38-722afc834af3@gmail.com>
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On Aug 13 08:57, cyg Simple wrote:
> On 8/13/2018 3:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Aug 12 19:53, cyg Simple wrote:
> >> The documentation for cygwin-console-helper.exe is missing, not even a
> >> --help function.
> >
> > cygwin-console-helper.exe is not for the user to use, so why add
> > user docs? The documentation is in the source for the interested
> > dev:
> >
> > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc;hb=HEAD#l2521
> >
>
> How the hell am I supposed to find that by looking at
> cygwin-console-helper.cc?
You aren't. The cygwin-console-helper solution is under-the-hood stuff,
a solution for a problem which was supposed to be not user visible.
Because, in this case user visible means it doesn't work as desired.
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-13 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-12 23:53 cyg Simple
2018-08-13 6:08 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-08-13 7:53 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-08-13 11:12 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-13 11:26 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-08-13 12:57 ` cyg Simple
2018-08-13 14:46 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2018-08-14 21:08 ` cyg Simple
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