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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: REPOST: strange dup error
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 15:19:07 +0100
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> Sometimes when I use Cygwin.bat to start bash and I have another instance
of
> bash running, I get this error appear at the top of the console:
>
>    3996 [main] bash 2436 fhandler_base::dup: dup(/dev/tty) failed, handle
B,
> Win32 error 87
> readline: warning: rl_prep_terminal: cannot get terminal settings?]0;~
> ?[32mchris AT ADVENT02 ?[33m~?[0m
>
> Win32 error 87 = ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER
> The control characters in the bash prompt are visible on the terminal -
the
> colour does not change.
>
> I've searched the mailing list archives, but it doesn't seem to have been
> reported before. I've been trying to find a way to replicate it, but at
the
> moment it seems to be random.
>
> Regards
> Chris



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