Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Levent Yilmaz Subject: Re: xemacs shell problem Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:03:29 -0400 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pick.me.pitt.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MultiZilla/1.6.3.1d In-Reply-To: Thank you! Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Cygwin uses special pipes, called "pty"s, for applications that aren't > running in a console. I'm guessing that XEmacs uses these ptys for its > shell buffer. Some applications detect that they are not invoked from a > console, and allocate one. If the applications don't attempt to be > smarter, Cygwin has no problems redirecting their output. The reason the > problem doesn't show up in a "bash window" is that bash already runs in > a console. > > If you have the same problem running from within a terminal, like rxvt or > xterm, I'd suspect that the problem application does exactly that -- > allocates a console when run from a pty, which is what causes the flashing > console with error messages. Well actuall Xemacs' shell is the only place I have this problem. Both rxvt and xterm are working fine (maybe they are not using pty's?). Updating didn't change anything unfortunately. However, I believe the issue is exactly related to what you say: Application trying to be smart! I will do as you say and research the archives, though I have very little understanding of the matter. I wonder if anybody else experienced such a thing? thank you again! -Levent. > > There have also been some fixes related to pty-handling and Windows > console applications, but I don't recall whether they've made it to the > current release (1.5.9), so search the mailing list archives or just try > the latest snapshot to see if it helps. > Igor -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/