From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 118197 invoked by alias); 13 Aug 2018 14:46:04 -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 118105 invoked by uid 89); 13 Aug 2018 14:45:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-101.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GOOD_FROM_CORINNA_CYGWIN,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=sk:newlib X-HELO: mout.kundenserver.de Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (HELO mout.kundenserver.de) (212.227.126.134) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:45:50 +0000 Received: from calimero.vinschen.de ([24.134.7.25]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue006 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LcrJc-1gFWNF3csC-00i9H9 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 16:45:29 +0200 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6A955A80394; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 16:45:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:46:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Documentation for cygwin-console-helper.exe Message-ID: <20180813144529.GN3747@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1b1fd757-dd11-72a7-cc2c-7280d89a0500@gmail.com> <20180813075342.GG3747@calimero.vinschen.de> <165ec576-622d-a33a-9e38-722afc834af3@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="q8dntDJTu318bll0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <165ec576-622d-a33a-9e38-722afc834af3@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) X-SW-Source: 2018-08/txt/msg00149.txt.bz2 --q8dntDJTu318bll0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 965 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. > >=20 > > 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: > >=20 > > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=3Dnewlib-cygwin.git;a=3Dblob;f=3Dwinsup/c= ygwin/fhandler_console.cc;hb=3DHEAD#l2521 > >=20 >=20 > 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 --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --q8dntDJTu318bll0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-length: 833 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEoVYPmneWZnwT6kwF9TYGna5ET6AFAltxmYkACgkQ9TYGna5E T6CggA/5AbgNN2PpN6BKiWC1/W6gt0JiC03jGlb2SFHqCM404RmywGJgZTN+DFCO ZRASUtqk9dy8VN5+Awxo8lGUKw7eiBqwvY5JHS/YP3dQ5REJiMsIYeQuDKTIoLMP nbgFSsqe5EsryC889NkGnnrY0eAAz1aZ+Ps6tcIhsZuifL1iIJ3rjBjzt6XxLrTv 7coTUmGsSZMhWD+i0wNWnEKOWWzWRJMhpSCggQbZWTvslixla9D1gWnwWtORiY8c 9PVeltDi/37jbF1vgOJJhMRiRylZq9h8jQOfM8A9fio72oTVfbzD42qlVsrrl2Op XCL79BBFmBQcNgUuL//nyCgy4IdxJuk3N4/sjIadJpZoIDe8d6wwozN96WiCFoll ByQYKnw8l8vLxLU7OkycrZZQplEL9ou59fVUPKR2Og+kQvoV7P32UDEAoSxelemx 7+RJ6aaRFrnci9RKpC4RoEQ3LLJIIP8iKkd+FExQ9LgDSQmXbrlJ9+Lg59fJGEyh e1vb84J3MV8O8gMKoEYtD9rnIjBCaIrC+ARPOMaIbKzMyCNoA+4E6WgcXHn4DStT QZl0aJLMd/setwtUzepkbBW1oCyHQwxVn/txOoJDr2DM8DB/rPWayTe84lvtzE4L 6vfVaw+Ct6Ok8v08p7gTKUgLdYV2Wz8ErlP1EF4H2OpXCJipqkQ= =u9am -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --q8dntDJTu318bll0--