X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:23:22 -0400 From: tom reivik Subject: /dev/conin absent To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-id: <20120413002322.GA4887@nikeah.i.reivik.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple