Re: need xterm to log to a file

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 06:50:11AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Al Goodman wrote:
>
>>On unix, xterm has an option that will enable it to log info typed and 
>>displayed to be logged to a file.  I downloaded the xterm source and 
>>compiled it.  When I enabled the option via Cntl-mouse-left-click the 
>>window hung.  Any suggestions on how to log input and output of an xterm 
>>would be appreciated.
>
>I see it's a (usually minor) error in xterm, which runs into a cygwin bug.
>The function creat_as() does a fork/wait, assuming that it has to strip 
>off the setuid/setgid privilges.  That's not needed in cygwin, but the
>fork/wait doesn't work (looks like a cygwin bug).  I'll add a fix in #198
>so it will work for cygwin.

How about saying "cygwin bug" a few more times?  I love it when people sling
that term around while providing no details.

If fork/wait didsn't work it would be a serious problem with repercussions
for every package in the cygwin distribution and it would certainly be
one that we'd want to fix.

Can you be more precise in detailing this problem?

cgf