From: Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: From Microsoft: Windows 10 Console and Cygwin
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 20:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB2911B-10C9-409F-B0A4-A88C3C9EB0BD@etr-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <556E01FC.6060004@redhat.com>
On Jun 2, 2015, at 1:20 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 06/02/2015 10:37 AM, Rich Eizenhoefer wrote:
>> Can you provide more detail on changing isatty function to support Cygwin PTY's? I need to be able to support the request in our backlog.
>
> As long as we are wishing, it would be awesome if Windows natively
> supported ptys as actual objects, instead of making cygwin have to
> emulate them on top of other objects.
In my ignorance of how ptys map to Windows console objects, I held off from asking for this when Mr. Eizenhoefer solicited ideas, but this is what I thought of at that time, too.
In other words, this notion of “virtual terminals” is already implemented multiple times, following a standard that specifies the expected semantics — POSIX — so why not just do that?
Why, in the end, can Windows *not* have ptys?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-02 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-29 19:01 Rich Eizenhoefer
2015-04-29 19:50 ` Tim Prince
2015-04-29 20:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-29 21:31 ` Rich Eizenhoefer
2015-04-30 8:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-05-01 19:29 ` Rich Eizenhoefer
2015-05-02 13:47 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-05-04 22:35 ` Rich Eizenhoefer
2015-05-05 8:22 ` Michael DePaulo
2015-05-31 20:07 ` Ismail Donmez
2015-06-01 8:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-01 20:27 ` Rich Eizenhoefer
2015-06-02 7:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-02 8:10 ` İsmail Dönmez
2015-06-02 16:37 ` Rich Eizenhoefer
2015-06-02 16:50 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-02 17:50 ` Rich Eizenhoefer
2015-06-02 19:20 ` Eric Blake
2015-06-02 20:36 ` Vince Rice
2015-06-02 20:49 ` Warren Young [this message]
2015-06-08 11:49 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-06-08 17:23 ` Rich Eizenhoefer
2015-04-29 23:43 ` Michael DePaulo
2015-04-30 7:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-30 11:27 ` LRN
2015-04-30 12:44 ` Tony Kelman
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