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Re: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why?
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epamail dot epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 12:32:02 -0400
- Subject: Re: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why?
- References: <20110509161028.GJ27739@calimero.vinschen.de>
> Chris and I are wondering how many people are using the Windows console
> as local console window in CYGWIN=tty mode and why.
/usr/share/doc/screen/README.Cygwin says:
"In a DOS console, screen works, but in order to be able to reattach
detached sessions, you must set "tty" in the CYGWIN environment
variable.... If you use screen in a DOS console without CYGWIN=tty, you
will be able to detach sessions, but reattaching to them later is likely to
fail. Then you'll have to use 'screen -wipe' to clear out your old
unusable sessions, and you may have to manually kill their child
processes."
So it seems that screen users who are still using a DOS console need
CYGWIN=tty. I have no idea how many such people there are.
If CYGWIN=tty is going away, then we could simply tell screen users that
the DOS console is no longer supported in screen, since reattaching there
is likely to fail.
Andrew.
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