From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT goodnet DOT com (Mikey)
Subject: Re: Tty support defaults
16 Apr 1998 07:53:19 -0700
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To: "Christopher G. Faylor" <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>, jeffdb AT goodnet DOT com,
        cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

Hi Chris ;^)
to reproduce the bug.

fire up 95
set CYGWIN32=notty (or just leave unset)
bash
^C
for file in *;do rm ../$file;done #to get file not found errors
LOCKUP!!!

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:21:40 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:

>
>On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>
>> > The notty default causes needless lockups, and, I don't see
>> > any reason why we would want to have it turned off.
>> > comments?
>> 
>> It sounds like we may be moving in the direction of putting some more
>> effort into the tty layer soon.  If we decide to this and it proves
>> feasible, we would change things so that the tty layer was always on
>> while still permitting non-Cygwin32 console applications to run.
>> Currently, if tty mode is on, some console apps like the non-Cygwin32
>> version of vim can't run from bash which is very annoying.
>> 
>> I completely agree that having a tty mode is not desirable in
>> principle.  For now though it's better than having it always on, IMHO.
>
>I agree.  I don't understand the reason for the lockups in the console
>mode version.  I haven't experienced them.  But, they should be fixed.
>
>Maybe eventually, we'll want to have some method for marking specific
>binaries as "notty" by default.


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