On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:19:12PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >At 02:57 PM 9/20/2004, you wrote: >>Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:46:32AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>>>Would it be possible to implement a command then that says exec this >>>>with tty's instead of ptys? >>> >>>Cygwin ttys and ptys are the same thing. >> >>OK how about a command that says start this Windows console mode >>application using whatever it is that will make it happy enough to talk >>to stdin/stdout/stderr (short of starting a new window that is). > >I think the point is that while it may be possible to make changes that >do what you want, they are not straight-forward and compromise POSIX >portability.
Sorry Larry, but the point is that it is not possible to make the changes. So, you start a windows console app and you communicate with it, how, exactly? Open up a pipe? Nope can't do that. How then? >I also suspect that this is an area that requires real thought and real >effort by someone interested in taking up the effort. I'm not even sure it's possible to do. If it is possible to do, it's probably only possible on NT. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
