Adds Cygwin agent (mainly for Visual Studio Code) #173
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The integrated terminal in Visual Studio Code has numerous flaws[1] on Windows and winpty versions lacking ConPTY support, which covers the lion's share of installations, as ConPTY is only available on recent Windows 10 builds.
Since winpty is ordinarily obliged to interact with Cygwin processes' terminal via Windows' deficient console APIs, this commit implements a new Cygwin adapter, on the basis of the Unix adapter, which instead leverages Cygwin's native PTY implementation. This provides a direct interface between xterm.js and Cygwin processes, addressing most of those flaws and rendering the terminal usable.
[1] microsoft/vscode#45693