X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=wdHFT9TvF7Hc+lWT nGpomQhTdX2W/lXpv2MlNR1XjalC5MiOFt21Y29yMENkXQUTn65x5I+KFejczxRT 3jo3ydU+4/P8M847K/rDT7KoI8sg3g4uikRxh83VI3Qjrt/3lm8Iy7jgYq9Kz2ng xK03CnJ2J8BPZMf43F5jQ60IFuQ= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=VuadLlPdWYcmadbmBRLkCz 5fopk=; b=vzZ75sPThXF+MT0o3yNEFYM2sivyRzXhkcxpvGQxwBT9ERNJzvDiuo kt+69ZWcrvFrqKrYruEIwsExjf2ICAroyaZYU9k0p1PFRnqWoK1err3K9Rfn6NXO +s0UtNk+L8hjWBz3zLXt5G8OeXZP//tYl4yNjHpgr+0l+HKEvOnPg= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Message-id: <51BA3488.5050708@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:07:20 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached References: <51B63D88 DOT 6000508 AT codespunk DOT com> <774dr8ld62oteq1o8ljpplpuptlleritqe AT 4ax DOT com> <51B8F3E5 DOT 8070000 AT codespunk DOT com> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 6/13/2013 3:34 PM, Greg Turner wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Matt D. wrote: >> "the Windows console window you get through cygstart is not [a pty]" > > Ah, so /that's/ what I recently read uncomprehendingly! Thanks for > tracking down this concise explanation. Assuming that's right, then, > I wonder: what is it? What is what? This Windows console? It's... well, it's a... um, it's a Windows console! ;-) But seriously, it's just something different that doesn't conform to the definition of a PTY. Windows doesn't have PTYs. It uses the console instead. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple