Setup patch to keep test version if test version installed
Achim Gratz
Stromeko@nexgo.de
Fri Feb 6 11:25:00 GMT 2015
Corinna Vinschen writes:
> On Feb 5 22:57, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>
>> Oh, and while you are so deep in the bowels of setup.exe, would it be
>> possible to somehow fake a pty to shell scripts and a console to cmd so
>> that the scripts run by setup.exe produce their output in line-buffered
>> instead of fully buffered mode?
>
> Er... uh... *cough*... PTC?
I was hoping you had an idea of how to do this. I'm coming up empty.
> For Cygwin processes this would require to duplicate lots of the pty
> code from Cygwin to Setup. For native commands it might be enough to
> play with the process creation flags in the call to CreateProcess, but
> that might lead to a flickering taskbar entry for a hidden console.
I've tried to look for recipes, but have not found any that look promising.
http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/
I notice the lack of both unbuffer and stdbuf in Cygwin packages…
I don't think it's possible to ask another application to flush their
buffers or is there?
> The other problem is that the stdio handles are redirected to a file
> and thus, even if you have a console or pty, the output from the command
> will use fully buffered mode.
>
> The only way around that, afaics, is some sort of global setting (env
> var?) for the buffering mode which is honored by native processes and
> which may be read by the Cygwin DLL as well to enforce line buffering.
> But I'm not aware such a setting exists.
Doesn't sound appealing. Maybe we just have to live with it.
Regards,
Achim.
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