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Re: Cygwin built DLL invoked from MSC app doesn't seem to be all there.
- To: Ian Zimmerman <itz@lbin.com>, Cygnus tools mailing list <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: Cygwin built DLL invoked from MSC app doesn't seem to be all there.
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 10:46:19 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
--- Ian Zimmerman <itz@lbin.com> wrote:
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >
> > --- Jon Wells <jon@bigbang.com.au> wrote:
> > > It's seems that only some bits of the cygwin API work inside a dll
> > > invoked from a none cygwin applications.
> > -8<-
> > > Anyone got any thoughts? I getting really close to having to use
> > > micromush tools and yucky ugly stuff like that..
> >
> > To communicate properly between cygwin and non-cygwin processes you must
> have
> > set notty in the CYGWIN variable before starting bash.
>
> Why? I thought (after reading the documents) that CYGWIN=tty just
> enabled termios calls. What harm does it do when cooperating with
> non-cygwin programs?
I don't know the why? I just live with it. The harm that it does is that the
cygwin process cannot communicate properly with the non-cygwin process.
The termios code has been rewritten for the next release and the new code is in
the snapshots. I don't know if the rewrite solves the communication problem.
Possibly Chris Faylor, who did the rewrite, is listening.
===
"Earnie Boyd" <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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