Hi Takashi, On Jan 23 22:05, Takashi Yano wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:48:13 +0100 > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 23 13:33, Takashi Yano wrote: > > > - Following console APIs are additionally hooked for cygwin programs > > > which directly call them. > > > * FillConsoleOutputAttribute() > > > * FillConsoleOutputCharacterA() > > > * FillConsoleOutputCharacterW() > > > * ScrollConsoleScreenBufferA() > > > * ScrollConsoleScreenBufferW() > > > > Which Cygwin programs are doing that? They wouldn't work correctly in > > ptys anyway, isn't it? Does it really make sense to make them happy > > rather than requesting to change them? > > Just a possibility. There is no specific example.
In that case I'd prefer not to apply this patch. Using native Windows console functions in a Cygwin application just doesn't make sense, and we shouldn't support that beyond what's necessary for older, existing applications. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer
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