Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-07-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 09:58:35AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 06:08:27AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>> > 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

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 06:08:27AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> > 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, > >

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 06:08:27AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> > 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

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > 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 cod

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-14 Thread Andy Koppe
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

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 6/13/2013 7:39 PM, g...@malth.us wrote: 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. wrote: "the Windows console window you get through cygstart is not [a pty]" Ah, so /that's/ what I

RE: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-13 Thread gmt
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. wrote: >>> "the Windows console window you get through cygstart is not [a pty]" >> >> Ah, so /that's/ what I recently read uncomprehendingly!

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 6/13/2013 3:34 PM, Greg Turner wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Matt D. 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, the

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-13 Thread Greg Turner
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Matt D. 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? -gmt -- Problem

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-12 Thread Matt D.
If you read the response from the mintty author in the support ticket linked in the original post you'll see: "There've been various issues with pseudo terminal (pty) layer in the Cygwin 1.7.19 release, which apparently haven't been fully addressed in 1.7.20. Mintty is based on that pty layer,

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
> $ screen -S name -d -m > $ screen -S name -x > Remove dead screens with 'screen -wipe'. > $ Sorry, typed by hand, corrected above. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscr

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
> 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 c