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Subject:  Re: [1.7.0-29] can't create master tty
Date:  Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:38:25 -0400
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> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:17:49AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> >> >      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.
> >
> >Yep, I did.  Standard for screen in a DOS console, so I forgot to mention it.
> >
> >> It should be fixed in the next snapshot.
> >
> >Good, thanks.
> >
> >> >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?
> >
> >Should I use the latest at http://cygwin.com/snapshots/, or is there a different
> >location for 1.7 snapshots?
> 
> That's one of those questions that is pretty easily answered by "just try it".
> 
> There is only one snapshot location and it is always against the mainline of
> development which is 1.7.

The reason I asked is that I did try it, and found that bash wouldn't start at
all.  Thought maybe I was using 1.5.  Stay tuned, I'll submit a fuller report.


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