On Jun 14 12:57, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 11 June 2013 01:51, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> See here for additional information and reproducible steps in the mintty > >> support ticket: > >> https://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=390 > >> > >> I can reproduce this using cygwin 1.7.20, 1.7.19, 1.7.18, 1.7.15, and > >> 1.7.7. > >> > >> Screen does NOT hang when is is created by calling the first command > >> through cygwin started by cygwin.bat (commands typed through Windows > >> terminal 'cmd.exe' instead of mintty) and then attempting to attach > >> through mintty with the second command. > >> > >> Workaround is to use: > >> > >> 'cygstart --hide screen -S name -d -m' > > > > I get a little different result: > > > > $ screen -S scrn -d -m > > $ screen -S name -x > > Remove dead screens with 'screen -wipe'. > > $ > > > > and then I have to run 'reset' to get input echoing back. > > > > I've never observed this behavior before, because I always start screen as > > 'screen -AURD', which works fine. > > > > Do we have any idea whether the problem is with mintty or with screen? > > I observed the same behaviour as the OP, but also reproduced it in > rxvt and xterm, so not a mintty issue. Since it works in a console, > the Cygwin pty layer has to be the main suspect, unless screen has > specfic code for Cygwin consoles or ptys?
If this can really be reproduced back to Cygwin 1.7.7, it's a rather long-standing problem. Did anybody try to track this down at one point? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
