Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/04/16/07:53:19
Hi Chris ;^)
to reproduce the bug.
fire up 95
set CYGWIN32=notty (or just leave unset)
bash
^C
for file in *;do rm ../$file;done #to get file not found errors
LOCKUP!!!
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:21:40 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
>
>On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>
>> > The notty default causes needless lockups, and, I don't see
>> > any reason why we would want to have it turned off.
>> > comments?
>>
>> It sounds like we may be moving in the direction of putting some more
>> effort into the tty layer soon. If we decide to this and it proves
>> feasible, we would change things so that the tty layer was always on
>> while still permitting non-Cygwin32 console applications to run.
>> Currently, if tty mode is on, some console apps like the non-Cygwin32
>> version of vim can't run from bash which is very annoying.
>>
>> I completely agree that having a tty mode is not desirable in
>> principle. For now though it's better than having it always on, IMHO.
>
>I agree. I don't understand the reason for the lockups in the console
>mode version. I haven't experienced them. But, they should be fixed.
>
>Maybe eventually, we'll want to have some method for marking specific
>binaries as "notty" by default.
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