THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ACGWINLOGIN

The Cygwin DLL contains a console driver that emulates a Unix-model terminal within the Windows console. Cygwin's default consumer interface is the bash shell managing during the Cygwin console. The DLL also implements pseudo terminal (pty) gadgets. Cygwin ships with many terminal emulators which can be based upon them, such as mintty, rxvt/urxvt,