On Jan 8 16:03, Jeenu V wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Jeenu V <jee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Christopher Faylor > > <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com> wrote: > > > >> screen uses ptys. ptys are equivalent to CYGWIN=tty. > >> > >> We really don't guarantee that pure Windows applications will work with > >> ptys. > > > > Hm... looks like I've to live without cmd.exe from screen. > > Anyway,.thank you guys for the support and help. > > > > And can this be guaranteed in future versions of Cygwin? Or is it > something constrained by screen?
It's a constraint of the native Windows applications. There's no PTY concept in Windows so Cygwin uses pipes to emulate the behaviour. Cygwin applications know when they are running in a pty, native apps don't and behave differently if their stdio descriptors are connected to pipes. Bottom line: We just *can't* gurantee ... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
