On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, at 14:07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) thusly quipped: > On 6/13/2013 3:34 PM, Greg Turner wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Matt D. <m...@codespunk.com> wrote: >>> "the Windows console window you get through cygstart is not [a pty]" >> >> Ah, so /that's/ what I recently read uncomprehendingly! Thanks for >> tracking down this concise explanation. Assuming that's right, then, >> I wonder: what is it? > > What is what? This Windows console? It's... well, it's a... um, it's a Windows > console! ;-) > > But seriously, it's just something different that doesn't conform to the > definition of a PTY. Windows doesn't have PTYs. It uses the console instead.
So, no win32-console-specific fhandler exists, and clones of the win32 stdio handles are simply passed through cygwin core to newlib and vice-versa without any funny-business? -gmt -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
