Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:23:22 -0400
From: tom reivik <tom@tomreivik.com>
Subject: /dev/conin absent
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Hello,

I use Cygwin mainly for ssh access to a few Windows command line utilities
(psexec, mainly).  To make this easier, I generally use a wrapper utility named
conin.exe.  The utility makes use of /dev/conin to do its magic.

After upgrading to the latest and greatest Cygwin release (1.7.13), that entry
in /dev seemed to disappear.  Checking out the latest snapshot (2012-04-11)
gave me the same issue.  Looking through the changelogs and recent mailing list
activity, it seems there were a few changes in the dev handling code in the
latest releases.  Regretfully, I don't have the expertise to figure out why
conin disappeared, but it is still referenced in the source.

In the meantime, I've installed an older snapshot and all is well again.

--
Tom

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