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Re: fhandler_tty patch
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:32:29PM -0500, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
>To: <cygwin-patches@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 8:11 PM
>Subject: Re: fhandler_tty patch
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>> Ok. I haven't looked closely at this code before. I just am not sure
>> what use setting the size on a pty master would entail. I wonder if it
>> is supposed to be propagated to the slave. Also, isn't the master
>> supposed to be notified of size changes in the slave?
>
>No. Slave only gets the notification. From HP-UX manual page:
I don't mean SIGWINCH. I thought the master was supposed to be able
to arbitrate slave window size requests somehow.
>> I'll apply the patch but I suspect that this is still not exactly right
>> wrt UNIX emulation.
>
>Cygwin is not exactly right UNIX emulation - the PID of init process != 1:-)
Yeah, I think I've heard someone mention that.
cgf