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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:06:14 +0100
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Subject: Re: 1.7.5 cannot bg mintty
From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
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On 30 May 2010 07:00, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:32:23PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>There's also another issue with the ^Z not taking effect immediately
>>due to signal handling being disabled while mintty waits for Windows
>>events, but that would require some fairly major restructuring to fix,
>>so leaving that for later.

Fixed in mintty 0.8-beta1, now available from mintty.googlecode.com.

>> Looking at rxvt, the right thing to do is a
>>select() on the pty device and /dev/windows instead of mintty's
>>current approach using multiple threads and
>>MsgWaitForMultipleObjects.)
>
> ...assuming that still works. =C2=A0I wonder if anyone has used that
> interface in the last few years.
>
> But, then, I dunno. =C2=A0Maybe rxvt uses it.

Yep, rxvt does use /dev/windows; I double-checked via /proc/<id>/fd.
XWin uses it too. It allowed getting rid of quite a bit of complexity
in mintty's I/O handling code.

Andy

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