Re: [Mingw-users] mShell: mSys spawning system

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Earnie Boyd <ea...@us...>:

> Quoting Julien Lecomte <ju...@fa...>:
>
>> On 09/03/2006 15:41, Keith MARSHALL wrote:
>>> Chris Sutcliffe wrote, quoting Greg Chicares:
>>> [concerning design goals for Julien Lecomte's mShell project]
>>>>> An mdi interface would be very handy.
>>>
>>> Sure would.  If you can sidestep all the rxvt pty issues, Julien,
>>> and make it work like KDE's Konsole, this will be a real winner!
>>
>> The current problem with msys ptys is that they haven't the maturity 
>> of cygwin's ptys; more info towards the bottom of this email.
>>
>
> Uhm, as of about six months or so ago the problems still existed in 
> Cygwin.  I haven't given a try recently.  But ``rxvt -e 
> /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/ftp.exe'' should give it a good test.
>

And I just grabbed the cygwin1.dll an rxvt.exe and gave it a whurl.  I 
don't know what you are talking about Julien but Cygwin still has the 
same issues with pty's as MSYS does.  Perhaps something else is working 
better.

The issue both Cygwin and MSYS have with pty's is that there is no way 
to control the child process console handles when the child isn't using 
their respect runtimes.  STDOUT always blocks until the buffer is full 
and the buffer size isn't controllable either.  If you find a way to do 
that, then we can fix the pty issue.

Earnie Boyd

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