wine/documentation/console
Alexandre Julliard 03468f7d4b Release 980215
Sun Feb 15 12:02:59 1998  Alexandre Julliard  <julliard@lrc.epfl.ch>

	* [graphics/x11drv/*.c] [objects/*.c]
	A few X11 critical section optimizations, mostly with XGet/PutPixel.

	* [scheduler/sysdeps.c] [misc/main.c]
	Make sure X11 critical section is available before any Xlib call.

	* [if1632/relay.c] [tools/build.c]
	Yet another attempt at fixing Catch/Throw.

	* [loader/pe_image.c]
	Fixed broken PE DLL loading.

	* [include/winnt.h] [scheduler/handle.c] [scheduler/*.c]
	Implemented handle access rights.
	Added Get/SetHandleInformation.

Sun Feb 15 09:45:23 1997  Andreas Mohr <100.30936@germany.net>

	* [misc/winsock.c]
	Fixed bug in WSACleanup which lead to crashes in WINSOCK_HandleIO.

	* [graphics/fontengine.c] [include/font.h]
	Minor improvements.

	* [memory/global.c]
	Implemented GlobalEntryHandle.

	* [misc/toolhelp.c]
	Fixed a memory bug in Notify*register.

	* [misc/w32scomb.c]
	Improved Get16DLLAddress.

	* [objects/gdiobj.c]
	Implemented GdiSeeGdiDo.


Sat Feb 14 14:57:39 1998  John Richardson <jrichard@zko.dec.com>

	* [win32/console.c]
	Added the console implementation, AllocConsole, FreeConsole,
	CONSOLE_InheritConsole.

	* [documentation/console]
	Some documentation on the console.

	* [include/winerror.h]
	Added some error defines.

	* [scheduler/k32obj.c]
	Registered the scheduler ops.

Fri Feb 13 19:35:35 1998  James Moody  <013263m@dragon.acadiau.ca>

	* [ole/ole2nls.c]
	Some English language fixes for missing values.

	* [controls/listbox.c]
	Fix to allow an empty listbox to deselect all items.

	* [relay32/user32.spec] [windows/keyboard.c]
	CreateAcceleratorTableA stub method.

	* [windows/sysmetrics.c]
	Added missing SM_CXCURSOR & SM_CYCURSOR initializers.

	* [windows/message.c]
	PostThreadMessage32A stub method.

Fri Feb 13 17:12:24 1998  Jim Peterson <jspeter@roanoke.infi.net>

	* [libtest/hello3res.rc] [libtest/hello3.c] [libtest/Makefile.in]
	Updated the 'hello3' test so that it functions properly again.

Fri Feb 13 14:08:07 1998  Martin Boehme  <boehme@informatik.mu-luebeck.de>
	
	* [graphics/mapping.c]
	Fixed the embarrassing bugs I introduced into DPtoLP and
	LPtoDP.

	* [windows/scroll.c]
	Prevent ScrollWindow32 from sending WM_ERASEBKGND.

Thu Feb 12 22:46:53 1998  Huw D M Davies <h.davies1@physics.oxford.ac.uk>

	* [objects/metafile] [include/ldt.h]
	Fix to cope with records longer than 64K.

	* [windows/clipboard.c]
	Clean up bitmaps and metapicts properly.

Mon Feb  3 21:52:18 1998  Karl Backström <karl_b@geocities.com>

	* [programs/winhelp/Sw.rc] [resources/sysres_Sw.rc]
	Minor update of Swedish language support.
1998-02-15 19:40:49 +00:00

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Console - First Pass
--------------------
Consoles are just xterms created with the -Sxxn switch.
A pty is opened and the master goes to the xterm side
and the slave is held by the wine side. The slave fd
is changed into a HANDLE32 and this HANDLE32 is set
to the STD_*_HANDLES.
For now writing/reading to a console just calls FileWrite/FileRead.
If the command line console is to be inheirited or
a process inherits it's parents console (-- can that happen???),
the console is created at process init time via PROCESS_InheritConsole.
The 0, 1, and 2 file descriptors are duped to be the
STD_*_HANDLES in this case. Also in this case a flag is set
to indicate that the console comes from the parent process or
command line.
If a process doesn't have a console at all, it's
pdb->console is set to NULL. This helps indicate when
it is possible to create a new console (via AllocConsole).
Like most k32 objects, when the FreeConsole is called, the
ref count is decremented and the console is freed when
it reaches zero. The free kills the xterm and closes
the master/slave fds.
Also like most k32 objects, we assume that (K32OBJ) header is the
first field so the casting (from K32OBJ *to CONSOLE *)
works correctly.
BUGS
----
A exit handler needs to be added. If the process exits
without calling FreeConsole, the xterm continues on...
But... there should probably be a generic exit handler in
wine for this kind of stuff (K32OBJs).