From: Bruce Cran Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:35:16 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add recommendation that fio be run in a native console on Windows. X-Git-Tag: fio-2.0.14~7 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=78080867854762606c351fbe492e9455b261f524;p=fio.git Add recommendation that fio be run in a native console on Windows. Windows console applications often don't run correctly under Cygwin shells such as mintty because of the way they're implemented. Add a recommendation to the README to run fio under a native console such as the Command Prompt or console2 to avoid these problems. http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=56 documents the problem. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- diff --git a/README b/README index 41732376..b0fa6367 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ tool (http://www.opencsw.org/get-it/pkgutil/) and then install fio via Windows: Bruce Cran has fio packages for Windows at -http://www.bluestop.org/fio . +http://www.bluestop.org/fio/ . Mailing list @@ -128,6 +128,11 @@ How to compile FIO on 64-bit Windows: To build fio on 32-bit Windows, download x86/pthreadGC2.dll instead and do './configure --build-32bit-win=yes' before 'make'. +It's recommended that once built or installed, fio be run in a Command Prompt +or other 'native' console such as console2, since there are known to be display +and signal issues when running it under a Cygwin shell +(see http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=56 for details). + Command line ------------