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Re: Pseudo console support in PTY


Am 02.04.2019 um 19:50 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
On Apr  2 19:16, Thomas Wolff wrote:
Am 02.04.2019 um 13:02 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
Hi Takashi,

On Mar 30 22:08, Takashi Yano wrote:
Patch 0003: Support pseudo console in PTY. With this patch,
    native console applications can work in PTY such as mintty,
    ssh, gnu screen or tmux.
I've now tried your patched binaries on two systems. On one they don't run,
on the other I saw no noticeable effect, particularly no impact on the
pty/console interoperability...
Try starting cmd from your shell in mintty and do some native stuff.
I've now self-compiled cygwin dll on a third system and can run a cygwin console. But the build process did not generate the cygwin-console-helper, maybe that's the reason why mintty does not start?

You'll notice two differences:

- cmd history works
In the cygwin console, it does not, echos the cursor-up escape sequence instead. See my previous comment that I think ConPTY should only be applied if running at a pty. (And for other reasons only when starting a non-cygwin app.)
- dir /p will actually page
Does it also translate the character set?
Test case, when running in a German UI Windows:
xcopy
echoes either of
Unzul�ssige Parameteranzahl
Unzulässige Parameteranzahl

Thomas


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