/dev/tty does not work from shell

[Helmut Karlowski]

Am 09.02.2015, 20:38 Uhr, schrieb Thomas Wolff:

>> bash prints that message when it has the noclobber-option set. Maybe
>> you check it?
> Yes, indeed, the effect shows up after set -o noclobber;
> however, this shouldn’t apply to device files (and doesn’t on other  
> systems) -
> man bash: “redirection will fail if the file ... is a regular file.”

Right. Looks like a bug (in cygwin).

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