running msys under wine

[David Laight]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:23:49AM +0100, Ambroz Bizjak wrote:
> I don't think this is true. When the shell forks to create a child, it doesn't
> have to give the child the same standard file descriptors - rather it creates 
> pipes, and it passes stdin to the child by reading its own stdin than writing 
> the data to the child's stdin pipe. This way it can filter the input (like for
> control sequences). So, if it has any excess input data when it creates a
> child, it simply writes that data to the stdin pipe first.
> That is how I think things are and should be done.

Not in any shells I've fixed.
There is no need for the shell itself to pre-process process input/output.
There are no control sequences for the shell.
(^C etc are detected by the kernel line-discipline code and sent as signals
to the session leader.)

	David

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