Repeated input in PTY with SSH when a native process runs a Cygwin process that consumes input

Takashi Yano takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp
Sat May 30 16:06:28 GMT 2020


On Sat, 30 May 2020 15:46:39 +0100
Andrew Ng via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There appears to be an issue with repeated input in PTY (with pcon enabled)
> when using SSH. If I run MinGW git from the bash shell via ssh, and git
> then executes Cygwin less, e.g. for git log, then any input to less is
> repeated as input after git exits. So typically, you will end up with some
> number of space characters and 'q' in your terminal.
> 
> I have also seen this same behaviour in MSYS2 with pcon enabled.
> 
> Both Cygwin and MSYS2 are running 3.1.4.

Thanks for the report. I looked into this problem and found
the cause. Let me consider how to fix.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>


More information about the Cygwin mailing list