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From: corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de (Corinna Vinschen)
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour with latest snapshot
3 Jan 1999 18:57:35 -0800 :
Message-ID: <36902B64.51D9A818.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@cityweb.de>
References: <368FD2CE DOT EA0631E8 AT cityweb DOT de>
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To: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> That's very strange.  It almost sounds like some code from an experimental
> branch leaked into the latest snapshot.  I've been working, in my spare time,
> on rewriting parts of fhandler_console.cc .  The rewritten code does not
> need that test so I've ifdef'ed it.  I must have somehow copied this file
> to the main trunk.

Did I understand right, I should let it in state `#if 1'?

> This is a termios.h problem.  The termios struct changed recently.
> cygwin1.dll detects when it is being used with an executable which
> uses the older style termios struct and translates back and forth between
> the new and old versions of the struct internally.  If you link a program
> with the new libcygwin.a then cygwin1.dll will assume that you are using the
> new termios structure.
> 
> In your case, it sounds like you're using a libncurses or libtermcap library
> that was compiled a while ago and uses the old termios structure but you're
> also using the newer libcygwin.a which contains a version number that will
> tell cygwin1.dll to use the new style structs.
> 
> The best solution is to recompile everything.

After replacing sys/termios.h with the new version, everything seems to work
fine. I've tested with tcsh.termcap, tcsh.ncurses and pdksh.

Thank you for the hint, I forgot to replace this file.

> It is beginning to sound like we should release a B21 very soon which breaks
> binary compatibility with older versions of cygwin.  The termios changes
> were inavoidable but they may end up causing some problems.

I agree (don't beat me: eventually with tape and raw device patch?).

Bye,
Corinna

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