On Jul 12 18:40, W. Borgert wrote: > Quoting Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, W. Borgert wrote: > > > I managed to telnet into my XP box using cygwin xinetd, but if I run > > > Python (not the cygwin variant, but the stock www.python.org > > > installer) I get no interaction at all. Running the same Python > > > variant in the cygwin bash without telnet session, there is no > > > problem. Is this a known limitation? Did I do something wrong? Do > > > I have to tweak the CYGWIN variable? Many thanks in advance! > > > > A WAG: some Windows programs may require interaction with desktop, even > > for non-graphical tasks. Check out the "-i" flag to cygrunsrv, or the > > "Allow service to interact with desktop" checkbox in the Windows service > > properties dialog. > > Interesting guess, but I did not manage to run xinetd as a service. > Is there a way to run xinetd with "desktop interaction", but not as > a service? As I started xinetd manually I thought that interaction > with the desktop would be allowed and possible. Thanks for any hint!
The remote terminal is running through pseudo ttys which are implemented using pipes. There's a good chance that the native python implementation doesn't interact interactively with the user if the stdio file descriptors are connected to pipes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
