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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:35:46 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How can I avoid using a DOS box??
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On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:04:38PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 19:10, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>Are things to the point where we could make rxvt the default installed
>>terminal emulator instead of the DOS box?  I can't imagine any Win9x
>>user could possibly complain, and any NT+ user that would is simply
>>misguided ;-).
>
>Well, it's been discussed before IIRC.  Certainly I'm in favour of it.

I don't know how often I've expressed my opinion but I am mildly against
it.  The problem is that cygwin's pty implementation is not perfect.  It
can't run some native windows programs and it can deadlock occasionally.
There are some patches available that potentially solve the deadlock issue
but they need more testing.

Anyway, I'm concerned that defaulting to rxvt will just shuffle the bug
reports from "How do I get scroll bars?" to "Why doesn't my XYZ software
work right on CygWIN?"

cgf
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