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RE: prelude to a new cygwin 1.5.7 release: snapshot available
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: Ton van Overbeek <v-overbeek at cistron dot nl>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:04:45 -0500
- Subject: RE: prelude to a new cygwin 1.5.7 release: snapshot available
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401230336490.23199@picard.cistron.nl>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 09:46 PM 1/22/2004, Ton van Overbeek you wrote:
>Even with the latest snapshot dll (cygwin1-20040122.dll) I still have
>the same problem as reported by Dirk Fassbender in message
>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-01/msg00796.html:
>When I start ddd gdb is complaining it cannot access /dev/tty1 etc.
>So I am still using 1.5.5.
>This is on Win XP/PRO with an empty CYGWIN environment variable.
Oh, jeez I'm sorry but this qualifies as a "me too" report. There'll
be no gold star for you from CGF on this one! ;-)
>Any test/strace etc. you want me to run ?
>Or does this rings any bells w.r.t. changes between 1.5.5 and 1.5.6 ?
>There is one change in the 1.5.6 announcement which seems to be related to
>this:
> - Protect tty access from unauthorized users. (Pierre Humblet,
> Christopher Faylor)
Well, it could be useful for you to track down this change in CVS and
build without it to determine whether this is a contributing factor
or not. Give it a shot.
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