Re: lynx-dev please $CYGWIN=notty ?

[Frédéric L . W . Meunier]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:06:13PM -0300, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>
> > Do you know when it was added ? I think it worked 5 months ago
> > with different lynx and screen versions.
>
> The conout code was in 2.8.4
>
> This chunk in LYCurses.c may be related (in fact it doesn't fix all
> of the problems, but cygwin's terminal support is a little fragile):
>
> #ifdef __CYGWIN__
>     /*
>      * Workaround for buggy Cygwin, which breaks subprocesses of a
>      * full-screen application (tested with cygwin dll, dated
>      * 2002/6/23 -TD)
>      */
>     if (!lynx_called_initscr) {
>       FILE *fp = fopen("/dev/tty", "w");
>       if (fp != 0)
>           stdout = fp;
>     }
> #endif

OK, I commented the LYMain.c lines, applied
lynx2.8.5dev.11a.patch.gz, and recompiled. It worked fine. I'll
do that until you come with a proper "fix".

I think you could add something to PROBLEMS :-)

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