On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 05:44:02AM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >On 26 July 2013 05:14, Warren Young wrote: >> On 7/25/2013 17:06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> >>> I might personally prefer to describe and list them differently. >> >> >> DONOPWOL: >> >> DOes >> NOt >> Play >> Well with >> Others >> List > >I don't think that's fair, since such apps were designed for the >Windows console, without being aware of Cygwin's pipe-based ptys. And >unfortunately that list would be very long anyway: basically anything >interactive that hasn't been explicitly adapted to Cygwin ptys, for >example by disabling buffering and not relying on the console's >history facility. > >Speaking of which: somebody on the mintty mailing list would like to >make a Windows program Cygwin-aware by detecting whether it's running >in a Cygwin terminal (as opposed to having its input or output >redirected to plain pipes). Does anyone know a way to do this?
Why not just always flush stdout if it's opened on a pipe? cgf -- 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