[Bug 19464] New: NULL-input backend for wineconsole

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Sat Jul 25 17:51:27 CDT 2009


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19464

           Summary: NULL-input backend for wineconsole
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.23
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: programs
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: bonzini at gnu.org


I have several programs that in general need wineconsole.  When used in a
Makefile they will receive no input, but they still need wineconsole to avoid
locking up.  The reason is that they use an emulation of poll(2) for Windows
that requires GetNumberOfConsoleEvents and PeekConsoleInput.

Using curses mode allows the compilation to complete without requiring X11;
still, it causes an annoying flicker and it hides failure messages from the
screen.

It would be nice to have an alternative wineconsole mode that always allocates
the console for input while not reporting any input key, and that would connect
stdout and stderr to the "bare streams".  I can try implementing this; do you
think it would be hard?

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