Subject: RE: B19: Java readLine not blocking
From: [email-masked] (Sergey Okhapkin)

29 Jun 1998 02:56:11 -0700
Message-ID: <01BDA331.83A8E190.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>,
        "'Kenneth Suter'"
	 <[email-masked]>

Kenneth Suter wrote:
> Java readLine from BufferedReader does not block for input, at least
> under NT 4.0 and Beta 19.  It does however work in the DOS shell.
>

Looks like readLine code uses ReadConsole() instead of 
ReadFile(stdin_handle). This case the application is incompatible with 
cygwin's tty support. Try to remove "tty" from CYGWIN32 env var.

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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia

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