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Re: [1.7.0-29] can't create master tty


On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:55:54PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>I've recompiled screen for Cygwin 1.7.  It runs fine until I do the following:
>
>* Open a cmd console and run c:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe --login .
>* Start a new screen session (screen).
>* Detach the screen session (C-a d).
>* Exit bash.
>* Try to start bash again.
>
>Then I get:
>
>      3 [main] bash 212 c:\cygwin-1.7\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - Can't
>create master tty

You forgot to mention that you need to set CYGWIN=tty before starting the process.

I can duplicate this and should have it fixed soon.

Thanks for the simple to reproduce test case.

>N.B. no cygcheck -svr here, since cygcheck seems to be totally broken for me in
>1.7-- see next message.

I can duplicate the cygcheck problem on one machine but not on the machine where
I do development unfortunately.

Do you have the same problem with a cygcheck.exe from a snapshot?

cgf

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