New implementation of pseudo console support (experimental)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug  3 11:05, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-developers wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 14:01:04 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Wait... what?  So the exec'ing process hangs infinitely if the exec'ed
> > process runs infinitely?  Doesn't that have weird side effects by any
> > chance?
> 
> This is needed to close pseudo console when the native console app
> is terminated.
> 
> exec() call does not return on success. So the caller is not affected.
> If mode == _P_OVERLAY, the process is not seen from cygwin, though,
> it is seen from windows task manager. I have not noticed any serious
> side effects so far.

Ok, thanks for checking.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer