Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [jmorlan] 40289: Make cmd able to (sort of) work without a console.

[Steven Edwards]

Hi!

2009/3/29  [e-mail]:
> Author: jmorlan
> Date: Sun Mar 29 23:17:45 2009
> New Revision: 40289
>
> URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=40289&view=rev
> Log:
> Make cmd able to (sort of) work without a console.

Thanks! I am now able to run telnetd and connect in to my ReactOS VM.
Certain applications such as ctm don't seem to like running without a
console due to making calls to GetConsoleMode. I am going to test
telnetd on Windows with Windows cmd.exe and ReactOS cmd.exe to compare
behavior of these applications. Its possible cmd.exe returns some
bogus console mode or something when running without a console.

Thanks
-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

[KJK::Hyperion]

Steven Edwards wrote:
> Thanks! I am now able to run telnetd and connect in to my ReactOS VM.
> Certain applications such as ctm don't seem to like running without a
> console due to making calls to GetConsoleMode

tlntsess.exe performs console redirection in the official Windows telnet
server. It's ugly. In the case of ctm, I can assure you the application
runs correctly, it's the server that doesn't know how to send the output
over the connection
> Its possible cmd.exe returns some
> bogus console mode or something when running without a console.

The Windows cmd can simply run without a console, no hidden trick. It
assumes a serial terminal is connected to stdin/stdout, although I'm not
sure what kind of terminal it assumes (see: the control character used
by the console-less implementation of cls)

[Steven Edwards]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:16 PM, KJK::Hyperion [e-mail] wrote:
> tlntsess.exe performs console redirection in the official Windows telnet
> server. It's ugly. In the case of ctm, I can assure you the application
> runs correctly, it's the server that doesn't know how to send the output
> over the connection

Thanks for the tip. Searching for tlntsess I was able to find this page

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc778139.aspx
> The Windows cmd can simply run without a console, no hidden trick. It
> assumes a serial terminal is connected to stdin/stdout, although I'm not
> sure what kind of terminal it assumes (see: the control character used
> by the console-less implementation of cls)

Ok thanks. I'll spend a bit more time researching it and see what I
can come up with.
-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo