Pseudo console support in PTY

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Apr 2 17:51:00 GMT 2019


On Apr  2 19:16, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 02.04.2019 um 13:02 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> > Hi Takashi,
> > 
> > On Mar 30 22:08, Takashi Yano wrote:
> > > Patch 0003: Support pseudo console in PTY. With this patch,
> > >    native console applications can work in PTY such as mintty,
> > >    ssh, gnu screen or tmux.
> I've now tried your patched binaries on two systems. On one they don't run,
> on the other I saw no noticeable effect, particularly no impact on the
> pty/console interoperability...

Try starting cmd from your shell in mintty and do some native stuff.
You'll notice two differences:

- cmd history works
- dir /p will actually page


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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