/dev/tty does not work from shell

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 09.02.2015 um 05:23 schrieb Andrey Repin:
> Greetings, Thomas Wolff!
>
>> echo bla > /dev/tty
>> bash: /dev/tty: cannot overwrite existing file
> WJFFM
>
> Please be more specific.
> I.e. terminal type and any other relevant information would help resolving
> your issue.
>
> (Though, I fail to replicate it with both mintty and native terminal.)
Hmm, I've observed this for a while already on all my cygwin
installations (64bit/32bit on 64/32bit Windows, ...)
and in different terminals (mintty, console, ...), so I'd thought it
would be reproducible. Pondering...

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