Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Remove setvbuf(<handle>, NULL, _IOLBF, 0) calls for Win32

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 04:25:32PM +0200, Filip Navara wrote:
> I use MinGW-built QEMU in regular command line and MSYS sh and I never had a
> single problem with the buffering. I can't speak for Cygwin, but if they
> can't get it right I don't think it's up to QEMU to fix it (heck, checking
> for a console handle is as easy as "(handle & 3) != 0").

It is not a Cygwin problem.  It's a MSVCRT runtime problem.  The
runtime checks isatty to determine the buffering of stdout (this is a
standard C thing to do), and Cygwin terminals do not show up as
consoles.

If the underlying device is really a Windows console, of course,
there's no problem.  But Cygwin SSH ptys, for example, are not
Windows consoles.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery