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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:00:15 +0530
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Subject: Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> It's a constraint of the native Windows applications.  There's no
> PTY concept in Windows so Cygwin uses pipes to emulate the behaviour.
> Cygwin applications know when they are running in a pty, native apps
> don't and behave differently if their stdio descriptors are connected
> to pipes.
>
> Bottom line: We just *can't* gurantee ...

OK. I understand. Thanks.

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