Support for ConPTY?

Support for ConPTY?

[Nicolás Ojeda Bär]

Hello list,

I was wondering if it would be possible to use the recent ConPTY API

  https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/08/02/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/

to improve the compatibility of Cygwin with native Windows console
applications (especially interactive ones).

Thanks!

Best wishes,
Nicolás

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Re: Support for ConPTY?

[Andrey Repin]

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Greetings, Nicolás Ojeda Bär!

> I was wondering if it would be possible to use the recent ConPTY API

>  
> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/08/02/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/

> to improve the compatibility of Cygwin with native Windows console
> applications (especially interactive ones).

"Native Windows console applications" are not using that API, so, the point?


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, October 3, 2018 19:22:41

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Re: Support for ConPTY?

[Nicolás Ojeda Bär]

Hi Andrey,

Thanks for your email. I am rather ignorant about the technical
issues, but if you take a look at the section titled

  ConHost - Investing in yesterday for tomorrow

in the referenced blog post it seems to indicate quite clearly that
the new API can be used to run *existing* Console applications so that
they appear to be basically Unix terminal applications (doing I/O
using VT codes, etc).

Cheers,
Nicolás


On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 6:35 PM Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:
>
> Greetings, Nicolás Ojeda Bär!
>
> > I was wondering if it would be possible to use the recent ConPTY API
>
> >
> > https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/08/02/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/
>
> > to improve the compatibility of Cygwin with native Windows console
> > applications (especially interactive ones).
>
> "Native Windows console applications" are not using that API, so, the point?
>
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Andrey Repin
> Wednesday, October 3, 2018 19:22:41
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...

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Re: Support for ConPTY?

[Brian Inglis]

On 2018-10-03 10:49, Nicolás Ojeda Bär wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 6:35 PM Andrey Repin wrote:
>>> I was wondering if it would be possible to use the recent ConPTY API
>>> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/08/02/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/
>>> to improve the compatibility of Cygwin with native Windows console
>>> applications (especially interactive ones).
>> "Native Windows console applications" are not using that API, so, the point?
> Thanks for your email. I am rather ignorant about the technical
> issues, but if you take a look at the section titled
> ConHost - Investing in yesterday for tomorrow
> in the referenced blog post it seems to indicate quite clearly that
> the new API can be used to run *existing* Console applications so that
> they appear to be basically Unix terminal applications (doing I/O
> using VT codes, etc).

Someone using Cygwin on Windows 10 may be interested enough some day to research
and develop patches to map ConPTY API to Posix PTY API while not breaking legacy
support for Posix PTY API with older Windows ConHost.

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