This is the mail archive of the
cygwin-developers
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Request for help debugging screen problem
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:51:54PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Feb 5 09:35, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 02:46:48PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >On Feb 5 10:42, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
>> >> before and after the ReadFile the error code can return a different
>> >> value. ie. a call to the following function, returns different
>> >> values:
>> >>
>> >> ssize_t client_request::error_code() const;
>> >>
>> >> I'm curious as to how this could be. Is there some callback function
>> >> registered via the Windows API that ReadFile calls at various points
>> >> in its execution? Or is another thread setting this value?
>> >>
>> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> >Can yopu expolain this in more detail, please? What error codes
>> >are returned, and how do you trigger the effect?
>>
>> Also, unless you have CYGWIN=server set, this code should not be used
>> by the pty handler so I don't know why you're looking here.
>
>Beep. CYGWIN=server doesn't exist anymore. But, of course, it still
>requires a running cygserver.
Ah, right. So, I have never debugged the tty handling in cygserver. Is
this the root cause of some of the screen error reports?
cgf