300962 - -console doesn't work from cygwin bash

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Cmd-line Features, defect)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Reproduction:
1. Open cygwin bash
2. There, start Mozilla using |mozilla.exe -console|
3. Open Windows commandline (cmd.exe)
4. There, start Mozilla using |mozilla.exe -console|

Expected result:
No difference between step 2 and 4.

Actual result:
Step 4 works (you see "stdout redirected..." and dump statements, if enabled in
prefs)
Step 2 doesn't work: It opens a new console window, but you never see any
contents in it.

Comment 1

[Karsten Düsterloh]

Huh, this is extremely annoying. I just spend quite some time trying to reproduce some exception dumps to the console some Linux guy claimed were there...
This is for sure a major flaw for Cygwin based hackers.

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Yeah, FYI, this probably costed me a full working day all in all until I realized what the cause was that I don't see dump()s. This is something I simply didn't think of as possible cause.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Not sure what's going on here, but I'm pretty sure it's a bug in the shell, not in Firefox, so I don't think there's anything else to do here.

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

bsmedmerg, note that starting Mozilla from cygwin bash opens a new (cmd.exe-like) window with console (but dump() statements never end up there), but starting Mozilla from cmd.exe-console IIRC prints dump() statments directly in the original console. So, this may very well be a Mozilla bug.

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I still don't care... it's not worth fixing.