Re: [h-e-w] no C-spc

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Dallman, John wrote:
> > I thought Cygwin programs used Unix APIs provided by the 
> > Cygwin libraries, in particular cygwin1.dll.
>
> Perfectly true. 
>
> > Presumably the Cygwin emulation layer could read the keyboard 
> > in the same way that Linux programs do, although I don't know
> > what happens in practice.
>
> No, it could not. It can't use the Linux device driver; Cygwin
> is not any kind of virtual machine system, so the reading has 
> to be done by Windows' device driver at the hardware level, 
> and Cygwin has to ask Windows for keyboadr input. 


Actually Cygwin could nowadays do something very similar to emulate that 
behaviour with a low level keyboard hook. See WH_KEYBOARD_LL on the net.