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On 12/6/2011 4:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> In 1.7.10 a few internals have changed, which influence the way some of
> the Cygwin tools work.  For instance, the Cygwin ps tool from 1.7.9 will
> show weird tty numbers for processes running in a console window, while
> the new ps knows how to handle the new values.

[...]

> - Revamp console and pseudo tty handling.  Rename /dev/ttyX to /dev/consX,
>    /dev/ttyX to /dev/ptyX.

The new ps shows `?' for the tty of mintty when the latter is started 
from the Cygwin Terminal shortcut, whereas it shows an ordinary pxyX for 
mintty started from a bash shell.  Is that to be expected?

Ken

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