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Re: change to fhandler_console.cc from 2001-10-23 breaks ttyfier
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: change to fhandler_console.cc from 2001-10-23 breaks ttyfier
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:24:29 -0500
- References: <3583457104.20011112171154@logos-m.ru>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 05:11:54PM +0300, egor duda wrote:
>Hi!
>
>2001-10-23 Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
>
> * fhandler_console.cc (fhandler_console::read): Remove unneeded test.
> Only honor "key down" events.
>
>this change breaks ttyfier. unfortunately some programs (notably
>ntvdm) want to see key-up events. without them they think that ctrl
>key is stuck.
>
>key-up events should work only in raw mode -- there's a check for
>key-down flag in fhandler_console.cc:291
>
>what was the reason of this change?
I saw a similar change in Ian Ray's Win95 CAPS-lock fix and wondered if it
would solve any problems on w95. It doesn't.
I'll revert the change.
cgf