[PATCH 1/1] Cygwin: console: Maintain EXTENDED_FLAGS state
Mitchell Hentges
mhentges@mozilla.com
Thu Feb 10 15:40:36 GMT 2022
Thanks, I appreciate it.
The initial send was via GMail, but I've wired up git-send-email to msmtp,
and I'm hoping that it's happy now - at least, it looks like tabs are being
preserved now, which is a good sign.
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:38 AM Mitchell Hentges <mhentges@mozilla.com>
wrote:
> As well-described over in this post [1], it's possible for
> the active console mode to be impossible to correctly determine.
> Specifically, if ENABLE_EXTENDED_FLAGS is at any point unset,
> then the flags it's associated with (ENABLE_INSERT_MODE,
> ENABLE_QUICK_EDIT_MODE) will no longer be discoverable - they'll
> always show up as unset, regardless of real console state.
>
> It's not possible to work around this by setting
> ENABLE_EXTENDED_FLAGS once then re-querying, because setting
> ENABLE_EXTENDED_FLAGS on it's own will *disable* its related
> flags.
>
> Anyways, to avoid this case, all programs doing SetConsoleMode()
> must be good community citizens and carefully maintain its state.
> Unfortunately, we're accidentally stepping on this in
> fhandler_console::set_input_mode().
>
> This patch solves this by carrying forward ENABLED_EXTENDED_FLAGS
> and friends in the only place where it had been ignoring it.
> Since the previous behaviour of leaving all three flags unset would
> essentially maintain their existing state (except for the footgun
> being worked around here), *adding* the carry-over of the flags now
> should not alter console behaviour.
> ---
> winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc | 8 +++++---
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc
> b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc
> index 7a1a45bc1..b2554c3ba 100644
> --- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc
> +++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc
> @@ -458,16 +458,18 @@ void
> fhandler_console::set_input_mode (tty::cons_mode m, const termios *t,
> const handle_set_t *p)
> {
> - DWORD flags = 0, oflags;
> + DWORD oflags;
> WaitForSingleObject (p->input_mutex, mutex_timeout);
> GetConsoleMode (p->input_handle, &oflags);
> + DWORD flags = oflags
> + & (ENABLE_EXTENDED_FLAGS | ENABLE_INSERT_MODE |
> ENABLE_QUICK_EDIT_MODE);
> switch (m)
> {
> case tty::restore:
> - flags = ENABLE_ECHO_INPUT | ENABLE_LINE_INPUT |
> ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT;
> + flags |= ENABLE_ECHO_INPUT | ENABLE_LINE_INPUT |
> ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT;
> break;
> case tty::cygwin:
> - flags = ENABLE_WINDOW_INPUT;
> + flags |= ENABLE_WINDOW_INPUT;
> if (wincap.has_con_24bit_colors () && !con_is_legacy)
> flags |= ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_INPUT;
> else
> --
> 2.35.1
>
>
--
Mitchell Hentges
Engineering Workflow
Mozilla
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