Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/07/12/12:50:19
On Jul 12 18:40, W. Borgert wrote:
> Quoting Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>:
> > On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, W. Borgert wrote:
> > > I managed to telnet into my XP box using cygwin xinetd, but if I run
> > > Python (not the cygwin variant, but the stock www.python.org
> > > installer) I get no interaction at all. Running the same Python
> > > variant in the cygwin bash without telnet session, there is no
> > > problem. Is this a known limitation? Did I do something wrong? Do
> > > I have to tweak the CYGWIN variable? Many thanks in advance!
> >
> > A WAG: some Windows programs may require interaction with desktop, even
> > for non-graphical tasks. Check out the "-i" flag to cygrunsrv, or the
> > "Allow service to interact with desktop" checkbox in the Windows service
> > properties dialog.
>
> Interesting guess, but I did not manage to run xinetd as a service.
> Is there a way to run xinetd with "desktop interaction", but not as
> a service? As I started xinetd manually I thought that interaction
> with the desktop would be allowed and possible. Thanks for any hint!
The remote terminal is running through pseudo ttys which are implemented
using pipes. There's a good chance that the native python implementation
doesn't interact interactively with the user if the stdio file descriptors
are connected to pipes.
Corinna
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