Why is stdin always a pipe?

[João Eiras]

On 7/20/2018 11:52 AM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Are you using a terminal that does not provide a console interface?
> That is a pipe; Cygwin terms look like this:
>

On 21 July 2018 at 02:59, Heavenly Avenger <avenger@avenger.ws> wrote:
> My results match Brian Inglis', not João Eiras'. I run cygwin from a putty
> session (using putty's cygtermd little proxy) if that matters.
>

Oh right ! Now I checked again, using just a clean windows console
with cygwin running in it, and /dev/stdin are /dev/stdout devices.

I saw the problem running Cygwin with ConEmu. Guess the problem comes
from elsewhere.

Thanks for the debug session then.

Cheers.

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