winpty injection

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Fri Apr 6 18:44:00 GMT 2018


Hi,

Am 06.04.2018 um 12:31 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2018, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>
>> These symptoms suggest to me: winpty is not the culprit, but its
>> presence in the invocation chain seems to trigger the effect in a yet
>> unclear way.
> Sure, `winpty` is not the culprit.
Actually, as it turns out, winpty *is* the culprit. I've raised winpty 
issue https://github.com/rprichard/winpty/issues/140 about it.
> But running certain software (such as Maven) through `winpty` is *not* as unproblematic as we would want.
>
> Therefore, it would make sense *not* to make it the default. Unless you
> have a really good strategy in mind how to communicate this change to
> users in a way that lets them know about this issue and how to work around it.
Assuming, we're getting winpty tweaked as to the above issue, any 
further concerns?
Cheers
Thomas



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