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Re: [1.7.0-29] can't create master tty
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:41:02 -0400
- Subject: Re: [1.7.0-29] can't create master tty
- References: <bg8bb41hojma4l2dinneof4712lbbn3tmp@4ax.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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