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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:24:39 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached
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On Jun 14 12:57, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 11 June 2013 01:51, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> >> See here for additional information and reproducible steps in the mintty
> >> support ticket:
> >> https://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=390
> >>
> >> I can reproduce this using cygwin 1.7.20, 1.7.19, 1.7.18, 1.7.15, and 1.7.7.
> >>
> >> Screen does NOT hang when is is created by calling the first command
> >> through cygwin started by cygwin.bat (commands typed through Windows
> >> terminal 'cmd.exe' instead of mintty) and then attempting to attach
> >> through mintty with the second command.
> >>
> >> Workaround is to use:
> >>
> >> 'cygstart --hide screen -S name -d -m'
> >
> > I get a little different result:
> >
> > $ screen -S scrn -d -m
> > $ screen -S name -x
> > Remove dead screens with 'screen -wipe'.
> > $
> >
> > and then I have to run 'reset' to get input echoing back.
> >
> > I've never observed this behavior before, because I always start screen as
> > 'screen -AURD', which works fine.
> >
> > Do we have any idea whether the problem is with mintty or with screen?
> 
> I observed the same behaviour as the OP, but also reproduced it in
> rxvt and xterm, so not a mintty issue. Since it works in a console,
> the Cygwin pty layer has to be the main suspect, unless screen has
> specfic code for Cygwin consoles or ptys?

If this can really be reproduced back to Cygwin 1.7.7, it's a rather
long-standing problem.  Did anybody try to track this down at one point?


Corinna

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