From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6321 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2013 22:36:33 -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 6286 invoked by uid 89); 25 Jul 2013 22:36:32 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from Unknown (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:36:31 +0000 Received: (qmail 79326 invoked by uid 13447); 25 Jul 2013 22:36:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [172.20.0.42]) ([107.4.26.51]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 25 Jul 2013 22:36:23 -0000 Message-ID: <51F1A863.8060403@etr-usa.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 23:07:00 -0000 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin-L Subject: BLODA extension: console interoperability Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-07/txt/msg00557.txt.bz2 I don't see any console programs on the BLODA. Shouldn't it include programs that break under Cygwin due to things like the change from Windows console to mintty, or the pty (?) work that improves Linux/POSIX semantics? Then there are the even older class of programs that didn't work right even in the cygwin.bat days. I seem to recall that programs in this class failed because they knew too much about how the Windows console worked, and Cygwin couldn't intercept certain direct console accesses for some reason. I ask only because I don't run into this sort of thing very often, so I didn't have any examples at hand when the issue came up in a question raised in another forum. Ideally, I'd have been able to reference a program that comes with Windows. The only program I currently use that I know has such problems is rather obscure, so it wasn't a suitable example. I don't even know that it's popular enough to be listed in this proposed BLODA extension. (It's fsharpi.exe from the F# command line toolchain. http://goo.gl/1GOK86 I'm not even entirely sure what the problem was, since I switched to a Windows console for it over a month ago. Something about it being un-Ctrl-C-able when it is in certain states.) -- 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