On Feb 8 18:13, Thomas Wolff wrote: > On 22.01.2020 11:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 21 22:25, Takashi Yano wrote: > > > - For programs which does not work properly with pseudo console, > > > disable_pcon in environment CYGWIN is introduced. If disable_pcon > > > is set, pseudo console support is disabled. > > Pushed. I just fixed a missing </para> in the doc text. > > > Sorry I didn't notice this before. I think rather than having to decide and > unconditionally switch on or off, a better approach would be to > automatically enable pseudo console when forking a non-cygwin program only, > or have that as a third option. (I think I had suggested this before.) > It's good we had pseudo console in unconditionally now for a while, as that > apparently helped identifying a bunch of issues, but targetting it to where > it's really needed would further help to avoid future trouble, including any > performance issues as recently reported. > I'm willing to prepare a patch if desired, as I had implemented that > condition already for my earlier "winpty injection" proposal. > Thomas
Interesting idea, but given that all the Pseudo Console code in Cygwin is from Takashi, he should decide how to go forward. Takashi? What do you think? Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer
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