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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:50:12 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin telnetd/xinetd and non-cygwin Python: no interaction
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On Jul 12 18:40, W. Borgert wrote:
> Quoting Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>:
> > On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, W. Borgert wrote:
> > > I managed to telnet into my XP box using cygwin xinetd, but if I run
> > > Python (not the cygwin variant, but the stock www.python.org
> > > installer) I get no interaction at all.  Running the same Python
> > > variant in the cygwin bash without telnet session, there is no
> > > problem.  Is this a known limitation?  Did I do something wrong?  Do
> > > I have to tweak the CYGWIN variable?  Many thanks in advance!
> >
> > A WAG: some Windows programs may require interaction with desktop, even
> > for non-graphical tasks.  Check out the "-i" flag to cygrunsrv, or the
> > "Allow service to interact with desktop" checkbox in the Windows service
> > properties dialog.
> 
> Interesting guess, but I did not manage to run xinetd as a service.
> Is there a way to run xinetd with "desktop interaction", but not as
> a service?  As I started xinetd manually I thought that interaction
> with the desktop would be allowed and possible.  Thanks for any hint!

The remote terminal is running through pseudo ttys which are implemented
using pipes.  There's a good chance that the native python implementation
doesn't interact interactively with the user if the stdio file descriptors
are connected to pipes.

Corinna

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