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Re: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why?
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 04:00:25PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 12:39:47PM -0400, Edward Lam wrote:
>>On 5/9/2011 12:10 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> Chris and I are wondering how many people are using the Windows console
>>> as local console window in CYGWIN=tty mode and why.
>>
>>I'm not but there's various references to it it the web about it being
>>requires for Emacs. eg.
>>http://blog.arithm.com/2007/12/01/killing-cygwin-emacs/ I hope that
>>these references are outdated with Cygwin 1.7?
>>
>>The other references to it I see are about requiring tty mode for sshd.
>>This is also for historical reasons but I'm not sure if we still need it
>>in Cygwin 1.7.
>
>We have never needed tty mode for sshd. There is a web site which
>suggests (suggested?) it but it is mistaken.
(was?)
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