Re: Cygwin 3.1.x fails if I have the use legacy console box checked in Windows 10

[Takashi Yano <takashi dot yano at nifty dot ne dot jp>]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the report.

On Tue, 05 Nov 2019 14:24:06 -0500
"Michael D. Lawler" wrote:
> It looks like the changes between 3/27 and 3/31 were to support 
> 24-bit color in the normal console in 1703 or later and to fake the 
> support for legacy console.  I can't currently compile anything, but 
> I'm guessing that something went wrong with that change for legacy 
> console.  The other changes seem less likely to cause the problem 
> based on reading the diff.
> 
> At 10:34 PM 11/4/2019, you wrote:
> >I'm using Win 10 1903 build 18362.449 and if I check the use legacy 
> >console box under properties options in the console then I get the 
> >following error with ssh built with cygwin.
> >       0 [main] ssh 1942 C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\bin\ssh.exe: *** 
> > fatal error - couldn't initialize fd 0 for /dev/cons0
> >    5898 [main] ssh 1942 cygwin_exception::open_stackdumpfile: 
> > Dumping stack trace to ssh.exe.stackdump
> >
> >
> >Stack trace:
> >Frame        Function    Args
> >00000010000  00180060B7E (00180267ED8, 0018025A1B9, 000FFFFFFFF, 000FFFFBA50)
> >00000010000  00180049249 (0018006CEBF, FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, 
> >00000000000, 000FFFFCB00)
> >00000010000  00180049282 (00000000000, 0018035FC20, 000FFFFFFFF, 000FFFFCB30)
> >00000010000  0018005ABFC (000FFFFCC70, 00000000000, 001800D1BA2, 000FFFFCC70)
> >00180342D08  0018005AD46 (00100464280, 00180221860, 
> >FEFF552BFF677272, 00000000000)
> >000FFFFCCD0  00180049A0C (00000000000, 00000000000, 00000000000, 00000000000)
> >00000000000  00180048353 (00000000000, 00000000000, 00000000000, 00000000000)
> >000FFFFFFF0  00180048404 (00000000000, 00000000000, 00000000000, 00000000000)
> >End of stack trace
> >
> >
> >If I use 3.07 this works.  Also if I use the March 27 2019 snapshot 
> >it works, but if I use the March 31 2019 or later snapshot I get the 
> >above error.  I couldn't find anything that said that Cygwin now 
> >didn't support the legacy console thus I'm reporting this issue.

I will submit a patch to fix this issue soon.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

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