Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/19/13:56:11
In the absence of addtional context, I would say that this is a Perl issue, not
an RXVT issue. By default, Perl buffers STDOUT. If you add
use IO::Handle;
STDOUT->autoflush(1);
to the script below, you'll see the prompt just fine in RXVT, at least with
CYGWIN=tty
HTH,
--Rick
--- "Fletcher, Bob (GEAE, IT)" <bob DOT fletcher AT ae DOT ge DOT com> wrote:
>
> A Few weeks ago ayamico at yahoo dot com posted a question about RXVT. I
> haven't seen any response and was wondering if anyone else is having/looking
> at
> this problem.
>
> The previous message is:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00524.html 2003-03-07, 4989
> bytes
>
>
> When we run some commertial, native windows applications, we don't get
> prompts
> written to standard out until the application ends. RXVT seems to be
> buffering
> the output. Ayamico gave a simple example that shows the behavior:
>
>
> print ("Hello World\n");
> $str = <STDIN>;
>
> I've been looking at stty, trying to see if a change to the terminal options
> might fix it. In a cygwin window, where everything works as expected,
>
> in Cygwin (ie cmd.exe)
> stty -a shows
>
> ~ > stty -a
> speed 38400 baud; rows 25; columns 80; line = 0;
> intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
> eol2 = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W;
> lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
> -parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
> -ignbrk brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff
> -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel
> opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0
> ff0
> isig icanon iexten echo -echoe -echok -echonl -noflsh -tostop -echoctl
> -echoke
> ~ >
>
> In an rxvt.
> ~ > stty -a
> speed 38400 baud; rows 25; columns 80; line = 0;
> intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = M-^?; eol2 =
> M-^?;
> start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V;
> flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
> -parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
> -ignbrk brkint ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff
> -iuclc -ixany imaxbel
> opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0
> ff0
> isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -tostop echoctl echoke
> ~ >
>
>
> In particular I'm wondering if the values or eol and eol2 effect the behavior
> of
> applications under rxvt, but the modifications I've made to eol and eol2
> ahven't affected the behavior of the application above. ( I set all the
> option
> in the stty windows to match the cmd.exe values, but nothing changed.)
>
> Is stty even relavent to a Cygwin window?
>
> Does anyone have a clue if I'm likely to be on the right track, ie is stty
> relevant here. Or is the right direction into the rxvt source code?
>
> I have
>
> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 CA1006 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-06 02:16 i686 unknown
>
> Usage v2.7.2 : (XPM,menubar,.Xdefaults)
> rxvt [-help]
> [-display string] [-tn string] [-geometry geometry] [-C] [-iconic] [-/+rv]
> [-/+ls] [-/+sb] [-/+sr] [-/+st] [-/+si] [-/+sk] [-/+ut] [-/+vb] [-bg color]
> [-fg color] [-pixmap file[;geom]] [-fb fontname] [-fn fontname]
> [-name string] [-title string] [-n string] [-cr color] [-pr color]
> [-bd color] [-sl number] [-mod modifier] [-e command arg ...]
>
>
> I pulled an up to date copy of cygwin 13.20, and saw the same issue.
>
> Bob.
>
>
>
>
> GE Aircraft Engines
> ______________________________________________
> Bob Fletcher
> Analysis and Engineering Systems
> GE Aircraft Engines,
> 1 Neumann Way, Evendale, OH
>
>
>
>
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