request for new feature

[Harold L Hunt II]

Right to all of that, but I am really busy at work right now and this is 
precisely the sort of discussion that I don't have time to partake in at 
the moment.

Harold

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:21:12PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
>>We discussed this back in May/June.  Suhaib mailed me the CDs of his 
>>initial work in June as a result of the discussion.  I have the CDs, so 
>>I don't need to check the archives for proof here.  Of course, since 
>>then I have been rather tied up with things (wedding, moving, etc.).
>>
>>End of discussion.
> 
> 
> I think I can judge when I want to stop discussing, thanks.
> 
> Maybe you don't recall, but you discussed moving to a non-cygwin version
> of XFree86 some time ago.  Perhaps you recall my objections then.
> 
> The consequences of the decision to possibly fork XFree86 and steer
> Cygwin/Xfree86 development in the direction of the future fork are that
> I will occasionally comment on what I think is an incorrect decision.
> 
> So, to reiterate, avoiding a perfectly valid use of the Cygwin (aka
> UNIX) API is, IMO, questionable and, I'll be randomly offering my
> opinion on that subject when I notice it cropping up.
> 
> So, when I mention this again, you can remind me again that you already
> told me what you'd decided, and I'll send you the URL to this message.
> 
> For the record, I offer this same perspective to any other package that
> suggests using Windows APIs over Cygwin's.
> 
> Anyway, from a purely technical point of view, regardless of whether
> you want to use the Cygwin API or not, I'll again offer that the code
> in fhandler_tty.cc (specifically fhandler_tty_slave::open, near the end)
> might be useful for controlling the console window popup problem.  Look
> for CreateWindowStation.  If you are using the cygwin api, you should be
> able to get the same behavior by closing stdin/stdout/stderr and calling
> setsid().
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