Previously, the console device could not be accessed from other terminals.
Due to this limitation, GNU screen and tmux cannot be opened in console.
With this patch, console device can be accessed from other TTYs, such as
other consoles or ptys. Thanks to this patch, screen and tmux get working
in console.
Reviewed-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
Only required for Windows 7.
This in turn allows to drop the helper_pid and related
methods from fhandler_pty_common.
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Only required for Windows 7.
This allows to remove fhandler_pipe::get_query_hdl_per_system(),
too.
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
- The codes related to pty and console in spawn.cc have been moved
into the new class fhandler_termios::spawn_worker, and make spawn.cc
call them. The functionality has not been changed at all.
According to POSIX and the Linux man page, select(2) is supposed to
report read ready if a file is at EOF. In the case of a FIFO, this
means that the pipe is empty and there are no writers. But there
seems to be an undocumented exception, observed on Linux and other
platforms: If no writer has ever been opened, then select(2) does not
report read ready. This can happen if a reader is opened with
O_NONBLOCK before any writers have opened.
This commit makes Cygwin consistent with those other platforms by
introducing a special EOF test, fhandler_fifo::select_hit_eof, which
returns false if there's never been a writer opened.
To implement this we use a new variable '_writer_opened' in the FIFO's
shared memory, which is set to 1 the first time a writer opens. New
methods writer_opened() and set_writer_opened() are used to test and
set this variable.
Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-September/252223.html
Takashi Yano
Corinna Vinschen
Ken Brown