-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08.01.2014 21:31, Nils Durner wrote: > >>>> I have found no way to wait (and thus select) on a console >>>> handle. > > I haven't actually tried it, but the documentation for > WaitForMultipleObjects() explicitely specifies "Console input" as > a supported handle type (maybe obtained by GetStdHandle()?).
Tried WaitForSingleObject() on the console input handle, didn't work. > >>>> Thus it will have to be done with a thread. > > Other idea: reimplement the console (like Turbo Pascal for Windows > did) and add MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx() to plibc's select(). Right...At this rate it'll be easier to just use conemu. > >>> OR we could do our usual trick and fork another helper process >>> to interact with the console ;-). >> >> That might work, as it turns console I/O into socket or pipe I/O >> (both of which are supported), from the point of view of the >> application. > > (Probably) phrased differently: do the actual work in a background > process and have a really lean, telnet(.exe) like, console UI. A > proper Windows implementation would be easy to do then. Well, i did implement a console helper as grothoff suggested. Worked for me (though i had to fudge the inheritance a bit to make sure children do get access to the console). > >>>> Which leads me to the question: do we really need interactive >>>> console on Windows? > > Without knowing anything about the background subject, I'd say: > no. Either have a real graphical UI or forget about it. That is what i think as well. - -- O< ascii ribbon - stop html email! - www.asciiribbon.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSzY48AAoJEOs4Jb6SI2Cwi/gIAIB8BP3j5qxYhFQzYplB9Ls2 5UqZm3uxl5aDaetcaNUCqXmXfDX6u+yKNeDfF01g23sIxmrqxz6ER3z1owO+OKfU A1UDut20HThHVMwDfueEj8lKaVQxntavC0oYonw5HVtKXQMXc+3/HwyiXIrjdKu5 urxf4pnFQfUNsCF/HAv4Q1K8h5xtppkaHgIMNxZqcCNmC41YHWDpvC9OSPc9qMqR hv16pmHVp3cKgh7eJ6xs9TjKAF6PvhdEmH8Pu6xZypaot/elQiTE1XC0KEV8DJTg F5TQnb8nfpN2W00j4k9bHKY1J2ygGzRieqHDmA1sI84EzxKK/QoZCXsNTGU8KOU= =6bnN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ GNUnet-developers mailing list GNUnet-developers@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnunet-developers
