stderr outputs veerrrryyy slowly

Larry Hall cygwin-lh@cygwin.com
Wed Jun 18 19:19:00 GMT 2003


Brian Dessent wrote:

> Brian Dessent wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm running under Win2k SP3, cygwin.dll version 1.3.22-1, CYGWIN="ntea
>>tty ntsec" (the partition is NTFS), and a bunch of packages all of
>>whatever the latest stable version is according to setup.exe.  I use
>>plain old bash as my shell, no rxvt or X Windows or anything.
> 
> 
> Man, why do I always think of stuff AFTER posting?
> 
> Anyway, I just remembered that I had tty set in the CYGWIN variable. 
> Tried it without tty, and the problem's gone, at least in all the cases
> I could think of where it was happening.
> 
> Problem is, not setting tty breaks some stuff.  For example, pico (^C
> doesn't work.)  I'm sure there are other curses things that don't work
> right either.
> 
> So, does it make any more sense to anyone now?


Nope. :-)

Works for me fine either way.  Perhaps providing information
requested by <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> will shed some light.
Perhaps not.

You could try it with strace and post the results too.


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