On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:50:28 +0100 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 22 05:58, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-patches wrote: > > The new implementation of pseudo console support by commit bb428520 > > provides the important advantages, while there also has been several > > disadvantages compared to the previous implementation. > > > > These patches overturn some of them. > > > > The disadvantage: > > 1) The cygwin program which calls console API directly does not work. > > is supposed to be able to be overcome as well, however, I am not sure > > it is worth enough. This will need a lot of hooks for console APIs. > > Definitely not. We should really not cave in to such expectations. > Cygwin apps are POSIX apps in the first place and should use the API > provided by Cygwin and other Cygwin libs. Yes, there are border cases > like the X server or cygrunsrv, but these are limited and should stay > limited.
I agree. I will stop working on it. -- Takashi Yano <takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp>
