[ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.12

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Mon Apr 2 18:54:00 GMT 2012


On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 08:50:58PM +0200, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>Am 02.04.2012 19:05, schrieb Christopher Faylor:
>> I don't see how we could accommodate this without switching the console
>> to "uncooked" mode.  And, as you say, that would have massive effects
>> on the console code.  I don't think it's worth that much change for such
>> a relatively unused feature.  Especially since it would make console I/O
>> slower.
>I don't see how it should make anything slower.

Maybe we are already opening console in character-at-a-time mode so that
we can deal properly with CTRL-D so maybe it wouldn't be an issue.
Nevertheless, your patch isn't right, as I mentioned in cygwin-patches.

cgf

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