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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
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Subject: RE: /dev/console : permission denied
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:24:53 -0000
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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?
 

    cheers,
      DaveK
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