[PATCH v2 2/3] Cygwin: pty: Discard pcon input buffer when discard_input is called.

Takashi Yano <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:09:01 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.os.cygwin.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Previously, the process on pty could not be a child of non-cygwin
process. So, it is not necessary to flush pcon input buffer even
when discard_input() is called. However, now, the child process
of non-cygwin app on pseudo console is running on pty. So,
discard_input() should affect to the pcon input buffer as well.

This prevents the probelm:
  1) Run 'sleep 10' in cmd.exe
  2) Enter 'ps\n' while sleeping
  3) Press Ctrl-C
  4) 'ps' will be executed after terminating 'sleep' by Ctrl-C.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Yano <[email protected]>
Reviwed-by:
---
 winsup/cygwin/fhandler/pty.cc | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/pty.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/pty.cc
index d625ff9df..b3a8d57cc 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/pty.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/pty.cc
@@ -583,6 +583,14 @@ fhandler_pty_master::discard_input ()
   if (!get_ttyp ()->pcon_activated)
     while (::bytes_available (bytes_in_pipe, from_master_nat) && bytes_in_pipe)
       ReadFile (from_master_nat, buf, sizeof(buf), &n, NULL);
+  else
+    {
+      DWORD target_pid = get_ttyp ()->nat_pipe_owner_pid;
+      DWORD resume_pid =
+	fhandler_pty_common::attach_console_temporarily (target_pid);
+      FlushConsoleInputBuffer (h_pcon_in_dupped);
+      fhandler_pty_common::resume_from_temporarily_attach (resume_pid);
+    }
   get_ttyp ()->discard_input = true;
   ReleaseMutex (input_mutex);
 }
@@ -2585,7 +2593,8 @@ fhandler_pty_master::write (const void *ptr, size_t len)
       for (size_t i = 0, j = 0; i < len; i++)
 	{
 	  process_sig_state r = process_sigs (buf[i], get_ttyp (), this);
-	  if (r != done_with_debugger)
+	  if (r != done_with_debugger &&
+	      (r != signalled || (ti.c_lflag & NOFLSH) || buf[i] == '\003'))
 	    {
 	      char c = buf[i];
 	      /* Workaround for pseudo console in Windows 11 */
-- 
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