Possibly incorrect explanation of how WaitForSomething works (and how to fix it) [RC and CGF please comment]

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [ mailto:cgf@redhat.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 6:09 AM
> To: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Possibly incorrect explanation of how WaitForSomething
> works (and how to fix it) [RC and CGF please comment]
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:09:48AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >I thought cygwin had fd support for keyboard and mouse? If 
> it doesn't,
> >then my suggestion would be: write it.
> 
> It only supports the keyboard and the mouse in the context of 
> the console.
> I don't think that is appropriate for the X server.
> 
> cgf
> 

I'm just curious here: In Unix as I understand it, the X server physical
screen gets a pty? for access to the keyboard, and opens /dev/mouse |
/dev/cua0 | ... 

What makes those things inappropriate for cygwin support? I'd have
thought that a win32 message queue handler in a cygwin linked app would
be more trouble than cygwin handling the messages...

Rob