X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <5195c8760901080330l34e64cc0g835e566631960816@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:00:15 +0530 From: "Jeenu V" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin In-Reply-To: <20090108112023.GC14304@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5195c8760901052113i531a01eeucd7e7aa0f36c8dc3@mail.gmail.com> <49639969.40707@cygwin.com> <49639A90.8020702@cygwin.com> <5195c8760901062114r6ba086a1v2f6bac5ee1ed1538@mail.gmail.com> <49644792.2030607@cygwin.com> <5195c8760901070019y58d4f3a4l266950475001f21b@mail.gmail.com> <20090107155217.GB32231@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <5195c8760901071702m50d5a682sa60ad80c13c011af@mail.gmail.com> <5195c8760901080233q615d5ea2mcd2ce4f5e19cfde9@mail.gmail.com> <20090108112023.GC14304@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > It's a constraint of the native Windows applications. There's no > PTY concept in Windows so Cygwin uses pipes to emulate the behaviour. > Cygwin applications know when they are running in a pty, native apps > don't and behave differently if their stdio descriptors are connected > to pipes. > > Bottom line: We just *can't* gurantee ... OK. I understand. Thanks. -- :J -- 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/