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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10


On Dec  6 07:07, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 12/6/2011 4:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >In 1.7.10 a few internals have changed, which influence the way some of
> >the Cygwin tools work.  For instance, the Cygwin ps tool from 1.7.9 will
> >show weird tty numbers for processes running in a console window, while
> >the new ps knows how to handle the new values.
> 
> [...]
> 
> >- Revamp console and pseudo tty handling.  Rename /dev/ttyX to /dev/consX,
> >   /dev/ttyX to /dev/ptyX.
> 
> The new ps shows `?' for the tty of mintty when the latter is
> started from the Cygwin Terminal shortcut, whereas it shows an
> ordinary pxyX for mintty started from a bash shell.  Is that to be
> expected?

Yes.  When you start mintty from the GUI, there's no tty.  Mintty will
open the master side of a pseudo tty, but it will by itself not have a
controlling tty.  Thus the ?.  When started from bash, bash has already
a controlling tty which is inherited by mintty.


Corinna

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