Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, May 10, 2011 1:19 PM >If we changed the /dev/console to /dev/consN (where N is a unique number >for each console window) would that address your use case?
Yes, it works for me if there would be a reasonably small (preferably single digit) number in the output of tty or ps. >You would not be able to do something like echo foo >/dev/cons4 and have >foo be echoed another console window though. Since I haven't been on a real Unix/POSIX machine since the late '80s, I'd forgotten about that. Now you made me want to DO it! :-) >Eliminating the special case of tty handling >would simplify the cygwin pty layer, shrink the size of the DLL, and >generally make Cygwin a little easier to maintain. Even if you don't accommodate me, that's OK, if your lives will be easier. As I wrote, if I find that I really miss tty identification, I can learn to use mintty. (Or maybe I should just switch - but not today.) Thank to you all for your work on cygwin. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple