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Re: From Microsoft: Windows 10 Console and Cygwin
- From: Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa dot com>
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- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 14:49:38 -0600
- Subject: Re: From Microsoft: Windows 10 Console and Cygwin
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On Jun 2, 2015, at 1:20 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 06/02/2015 10:37 AM, Rich Eizenhoefer wrote:
>> Can you provide more detail on changing isatty function to support Cygwin PTY's? I need to be able to support the request in our backlog.
>
> As long as we are wishing, it would be awesome if Windows natively
> supported ptys as actual objects, instead of making cygwin have to
> emulate them on top of other objects.
In my ignorance of how ptys map to Windows console objects, I held off from asking for this when Mr. Eizenhoefer solicited ideas, but this is what I thought of at that time, too.
In other words, this notion of âvirtual terminalsâ is already implemented multiple times, following a standard that specifies the expected semantics â POSIX â so why not just do that?
Why, in the end, can Windows *not* have ptys?
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