From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30330 invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2011 15:16:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 30322 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Aug 2011 15:16:40 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_RX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:16:25 +0000 Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8FF22052A for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:16:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:16:24 -0400 Received: from [158.147.67.90] (158-147-67-90.harris.com [158.147.67.90]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7D7E1A20126; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:16:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4E5515C8.1050909@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:16:00 -0000 From: Charles Wilson Reply-To: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Does not work well: rlwrap + rxvt + cmd References: <1314198447.17029.140258133233741@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1314198447.17029.140258133233741@webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 2011-08/txt/msg00459.txt.bz2 On 8/24/2011 11:07 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote: > I would like to run cmd.exe within a rxvt terminal rlwrap is not the problem. Running 'cmd.exe' within rxvt is not possible; cmd.exe expects direct access to the console host (csrss on WinVista-; conhost.exe on Win7+). That is, it expects that functions like those listed here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682073%28v=vs.85%29.aspx such as ReadConsoleInput or WriteConsoleOutput will work. rxvt is not what windows expects as a console host. It is a terminal emulator, and basically communicates with the inferior (bash, etc) via stdio pipes, and unix-style signals. rxvt + cmd.exe won't work. -- Chuck -- 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