[Mono-bugs] [Bug 81729][Nor] Changed - Console.Read(Line) doesn't block for winexe's

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Changed by rolfkvinge at ya.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=81729

--- shadow/81729	2007-05-25 08:47:32.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/81729.tmp.25405	2007-05-25 11:51:16.000000000 -0400
@@ -62,6 +62,21 @@
 The 2nd way is to solve this in managed code (using a NullStream
 in Console.cs) with the drawback that p/invoked unmanaged libs
 could still block the app while trying to read from stdin.
 
 (IMHO, we should not introduce this limitation in unix at all).
 
+
+------- Additional Comments From rolfkvinge at ya.com  2007-05-25 11:51 -------
+There's winforms applications out there that for some weird reason 
+uses Console.ReadLine while initializing. On Mono all that happens is 
+that when I execute the program the console just sits there, and 
+there's not really easy to figure out that all I have to do is hit 
+enter for the application to appear.
+
+I think the best solution would be as you said would be to "fix" 
+Console to not do anything for winexe applications (at least not 
+block on anything). I can't really see how printing CWL's when 
+there's not supposed to be any can do much harm, but blocking on 
+CR(L) is worse... And if there's any unmanaged lib that uses stdin, 
+then that's just bad luck. Shouldn't be that many for winforms 
+applications anyways.