Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/10/03/00:58:57
If you have `tty' set in the CYGWIN32 environment variable this will
cause problems with NON-CYGWIN programs.
---Jonathan Naughton-Green <jnaught AT seri DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> If anybody can throw some light onto running a "bash" session
through a
> pipe then I would appriciate it. I have sifted through the
archieves but
> have not (as yet) found anything that answers my question - (are
those
> archives big !!)
>
> I am trying to connect the Cygnus environment to a MicroEmacs
editor to
> run a Cygnus shell in one of the buffer windows. I can do this
with the
> "command.com" to give me DOS prompt in a buffer, however
applying the same
> technique to "bash" it does not quite work.
>
> The window comes up. I can send characters to the shell and I
can execute
> commands and see the results in the buffer BUT the bash prompt
and the
> characters that I type into the buffer are not visible.
>
> Basically all I have done is get MicroEmacs to prepare the
environment
> (i.e. pushed the cygnus.bat set up in the environment) created
anonymous
> pipes for stdin, stdout and stderr which connect to MicroEmacs
and then
> spawned off a new process "bash" (directly).
>
> I am a bit baffled by this because I had assumed that the bash
prompt
> would be on stdout. Because I can read the output of commands
such as
> "ls", "make" etc which appear on stdout and stderr then I must
assume
> that bash itself is doing something else - but what ??
>
> I have also assumed that bash will execute correctly when served
up with
> a set of pipes as it's stdin/out/err - this might not be the case.
>
> I'm running Cygwin 19.1 on Windows '98.
>
> MicroEmacs (jasspa) is from
>
> http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Thinktank/7109/
>
> + latest patch + a few hacks of my own on the launching of
processes.
> I am building under MSVC 5.0 (not sure if I can build this as a
> cygwin executable as a windows app ??)
>
> Regards
> J.Naughton-Green
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> J.D.Naughton-Green
>
> SAMSUNG Electronics Ltd
> Samsung Electronics Research Institute (Audio / Visual Labs)
>
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