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Subject:	Re: /dev/console : permission denied
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On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:24:53PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>Christopher McIntosh wrote:
>>Consequently, I am back to the issue which I was first
>>reporting/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/console) :
>>permission denied.
>
>strace might be able to tell you that.
>
>>SUMMARY: 1.  'cygcheck -s -v -r' causes an error when executed within a
>>Cygwin shell (bash, sh, etc.); but is successful when executed within a
>>CMD shell.
>
>Did you try removing 'tty' from $CYGWIN yet?

I don't know about the cygcheck error but the /dev/console problem
sounds like cygwin working as designed.  From the description, it
sounds like expected behavior to me.  Something is trying open
"/dev/console" when there is no console and is getting an error.

Well, duh.

cgf

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