On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 02:13:34AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >It has been suggested here a couple of times that it might be a good >idea for Cygwin to fill out the block that it sends to subprocesses with >information that fools msvcrt programs into thinking that its ptys are >really consoles. > >Back in 2010, there was a flurry of discussion that I shot down, hoping >for a better solution. Since none has materialized, I have concluded >that I was wrong to hold hostage a solution that would have made things >better for a lot of people. > >I have done some googling and see that Andy Koppe and Daniel Colascione >seemed to have something working (maybe that's where rlwrap comes from?) >but I don't either of them submitted a patch. I thought that I >remembered seeing an actual code change for Cygwin but, it's late, and I >can't find it. > >Does anyone remember if there was actual code submitted for the Cygwin >DLL? If so, a link would be appreciated.
Back to my original question: Does anyone remember this. Andy does this ring a bell? cgf -- 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
