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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Question about tty.cc
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 22:53:30 +0100
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> I wonder if, these days, there are any better ways of doing what this
> code is doing.  As I said, this code has been this way for years.
> Increasing the timeout is going to have a negative effect on cygwin tty
> programs.
>
> Wait.  Hmm.  This is only going to be a problem for programs run directly
> via a windows console, right?  It shouldn't be a problem for a child of
> bash since it is inheriting the tty handle explicitly.
>
> So, a slowdown should only be in an initial cygwin process.  Is this what
> you're seeing?
The problem occurs clicking on a shortcut in explorer - the console window
takes a little while to open and sometimes it simply takes too long for the
tty code to catch it.

Chris



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