On 9/17/2012 7:03 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote: > On 9/15/2012 9:21 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:15:49PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >>> I just discovered https://github.com/rprichard/winpty and thought >>> Cygwin users and developers may be interested. The license is MIT >>> style. >> >> Looks interesting. I've had something similar sitting around in my >> Cygwin sandbox for a while. It would be nice to have a real console-based >> pty implementation. > > Unfortunately, this program works by polling and scraping a hidden console > window. Any approach of this type will lose data. (No, you can't synchronize > your scraping by using console accessibility APIs because conhost calls out > into > accessibility with its locks held, and if you try to read the console buffer > in > this context, you deadlock.)
Well, that's exactly what Console2 does, and it works pretty well. I've never seen any "missing" data when using it. I don't know what they're doing to work around the deadlock issue, but whatever it is it works. -- Chuck -- 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
