Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:56:01 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Running cmd programs in cygwin / rxvt Message-ID: <20040920195601.GB10584@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <414E8B1A DOT 8040103 AT overbored DOT net> <414EA28E DOT 122EB347 AT dessent DOT net> <20040920143930 DOT GD6915 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20040920153922 DOT GA7869 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20040920155842 DOT GO6525 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <6 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20040920150959 DOT 02a09748 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.0.20040920150959.02a09748@pop.prospeed.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:19:12PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >At 02:57 PM 9/20/2004, you wrote: >>Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:46:32AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>>>Would it be possible to implement a command then that says exec this >>>>with tty's instead of ptys? >>> >>>Cygwin ttys and ptys are the same thing. >> >>OK how about a command that says start this Windows console mode >>application using whatever it is that will make it happy enough to talk >>to stdin/stdout/stderr (short of starting a new window that is). > >I think the point is that while it may be possible to make changes that >do what you want, they are not straight-forward and compromise POSIX >portability. Sorry Larry, but the point is that it is not possible to make the changes. So, you start a windows console app and you communicate with it, how, exactly? Open up a pipe? Nope can't do that. How then? >I also suspect that this is an area that requires real thought and real >effort by someone interested in taking up the effort. I'm not even sure it's possible to do. If it is possible to do, it's probably only possible on NT. cgf -- 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/