From: Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Pipes bug when spawning non-cygwin processes
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 01:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200221100759.6377af969a5f93217b488467@nifty.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200221100121.44625484e94eef069f9ff3d8@nifty.ne.jp>
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:01:21 +0900
Takashi Yano wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:33:27 -0500
> Edward Lam wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 2:43 PM Takashi Yano wrote:
> > > Could you please provide a simple test case?
> >
> > Here you go:
> >
> > // pipes.cpp
> > //
> > // Compile in a Visual Studio x64 Native Tools Command Prompt:
> > // cl pipes.cpp /link /subsystem:windows
> > //
> > // Run from inside a Cygwin shell, the produced pipes.exe
> > //
> >
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <windows.h>
> >
> > INT WinMain(HINSTANCE, HINSTANCE, PSTR, INT)
> > {
> > printf("This message used to show up in mintty cygwin v.2.11.2 shell!
> > or from ssh session\n");
> > return 0;
> > }
> > // end of pipes.cpp
>
> Thanks for the test case. Indeed, this works upto cygwin 3.0.7,
> and does not work in cygwin 3.1.0 or later.
>
> However, I wonder what platform is your program for. This test
> case does not work also in native windows command prompt.
> Your test case works only in old cygwin pty.
>
> If you want to make a program which works in cygwin pty, you
> can use cygwin g++ like:
> g++ -mwindows pipes.cpp -o pipes
> The binary built by above command works in cygwin pty, but does
> not work in cygwin console (cygwin in command prompt) even with
> cygwin 3.0.7.
>
> If you want to make a program which works with windows console,
> you should change the code like:
>
> INT WinMain(HINSTANCE, HINSTANCE, PSTR, INT)
> {
> if (!AttachConsole(ATTACH_PARENT_PROCESS)) AllocConsole();
> freopen("CONOUT$", "w", stdout);
> printf("This message used to show up in mintty cygwin v.2.11.2 shell! or from ssh session\n");
> return 0;
> }
Or just compile with:
cl pipes.cpp /link /subsystem:console
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Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-21 1:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-30 19:04 Edward Lam
2020-01-30 22:25 ` Takashi Yano
2020-01-31 6:25 ` Edward Lam
2020-02-18 19:24 ` Edward Lam
2020-02-18 19:43 ` Takashi Yano
2020-02-20 19:33 ` Edward Lam
2020-02-21 1:01 ` Takashi Yano
2020-02-21 1:08 ` Takashi Yano [this message]
2020-02-21 1:23 ` Takashi Yano
2020-02-24 14:46 ` Edward Lam
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