Running win32 applications under inetd

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Fri Dec 31 13:28:00 GMT 1999


On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 10:15:47AM +1300, Ian Collins wrote:
>I am using Sergeys inetd port to start a telnet session.
>
>One of the applications I am running in the telnet session is a console
>application compiled under Visual C++.
>(Example source code follows).
>
>When run in a telnet session, this code (using isatty) always reports
>the terminal is non-interactive.

Ptys are implemented using pipes.  Non-cygwin applications will not
identify a pipe as a tty.

I doubt that there is any way around this fact.  Sorry.

cgf

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