Cygwin Prob -- included 'setsid' is clearing terminal

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Sun Nov 23 06:33:00 GMT 2014


On 2014-11-22 20:21, Linda Walsh wrote:
> The setsid command on cygwin seems to have broken recently:
[snip]
> cygwin:
> /tmp> tty;setsid tty >/tmp/tty.out ; cat /tmp/tty.out
> /dev/pty0
> not a tty

WFM:

$ tty;setsid tty >/tmp/tty.out ; cat /tmp/tty.out
/dev/pty1
/dev/pty1

> /tmp> cygcheck -f /bin/setsid
> util-linux-2.24.2-1

The current version of util-linux is 2.25.1-1.

--
Yaakov


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