How can I avoid using a DOS box??
Andrew DeFaria
ADeFaria@Salira.com
Wed Nov 27 13:59:00 GMT 2002
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I don't know how often I've expressed my opinion but I am mildly against
> it. The problem is that cygwin's pty implementation is not perfect. It
> can't run some native windows programs and it can deadlock occasionally.
> There are some patches available that potentially solve the deadlock issue
> but they need more testing.
Perhaps this can be viewed as a request to perfect rxvt/cygwin pty handling.
> Anyway, I'm concerned that defaulting to rxvt will just shuffle the bug
> reports from "How do I get scroll bars?" to "Why doesn't my XYZ software
> work right on CygWIN?"
It may shift the bug reports in such a way that this long standing
problem (along with the "clicking on the close button of an rxvt window
does not properly kill the underlying shell" bug).
I don't know, perhaps rxvt is not under the control of Cygwin developers...
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