Cliff Hones wrote: > I must look at the console source... And now I have, and I see that fhandler_console does its own line editing, so is perfectly aware of the input line state. So blocking as soon as any key is typed seems a shortcoming of cygwin, not windows?
I see there may be a difficulty with storing incomplete lines, or with synchronizing processing of new console events seen by different cygwin threads/processes, and it may be deemed unworthwhile (especially as it doesn't seem to be a frequently raised question), but to it seems doable. -- Cliff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple