Xterm hangs with latest Cygwin (-62?)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct  5 23:47, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:46:21PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> >On 05/10/2009 13:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> And here's the problem.  Cygwin doesn't have TIOCSCTTY, and the only way
> >> to make a terminal a controlling tty in Cygwin is to call open() on it,
> >> which tcsh misses to do.  Bash, however, calls open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR),
> >> so bash doesn't have this problem.
> >
> >Out of curiosity, what about implementing TIOCSCTTY?
> 
> It's something that we really should do.  I'll put it on my todo list.

Cool.  TIOCNOTTY would probably be helpful as well.


Corinna

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