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From: Levent Yilmaz <sly5+gmane AT pitt DOT edu>
Subject: Re: xemacs shell problem
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:03:29 -0400
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Thank you!


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
> Cygwin uses special pipes, called "pty"s, for applications that aren't
> running in a console.  I'm guessing that XEmacs uses these ptys for its
> shell buffer.  Some applications detect that they are not invoked from a
> console, and allocate one.  If the applications don't attempt to be
> smarter, Cygwin has no problems redirecting their output.  The reason the
> problem doesn't show up in a "bash window" is that bash already runs in
> a console.
> 
> If you have the same problem running from within a terminal, like rxvt or
> xterm, I'd suspect that the problem application does exactly that --
> allocates a console when run from a pty, which is what causes the flashing
> console with error messages.

Well actuall Xemacs' shell is the only place I have this problem. Both 
rxvt and xterm are working fine (maybe they are not using pty's?). 
Updating didn't change anything unfortunately.

However, I believe the issue is exactly related to what you say: 
Application trying to be smart! I will do as you say and research the 
archives, though I have very little understanding of the matter.

I wonder if anybody else experienced such a thing?

thank you again!
-Levent.


> 
> There have also been some fixes related to pty-handling and Windows
> console applications, but I don't recall whether they've made it to the
> current release (1.5.9), so search the mailing list archives or just try
> the latest snapshot to see if it helps.
> 	Igor


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