mintty crashes on Windows 7
Orgad Shaneh
orgads@gmail.com
Wed May 4 13:27:43 GMT 2022
On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 2:16 PM Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> > Reduced the revert to this:
> > @@ -979,16 +979,10 @@ fhandler_pty_slave::open (int flags, mode_t)
> > code does not work as expected because it calls Win32
> > API directly rather than cygwin read()/write(). Due to
> > this behaviour, protection based on attach_mutex does
> > not take effect. */
> > get_ttyp ()->need_invisible_console = true;
> > - else if (_major (myself->ctty) != DEV_CONS_MAJOR
> > - && (!get_ttyp ()->invisible_console_pid
> > - || !pinfo (get_ttyp ()->invisible_console_pid)))
> > - /* Create a new invisible console for each pty to isolate
> > - CTRL_C_EVENTs between ptys. */
> > - get_ttyp ()->need_invisible_console = true;
> > else
> > {
> > acquire_attach_mutex (mutex_timeout);
> > fhandler_console::need_invisible ();
> > release_attach_mutex ();
>
> A few things about this.
>
> 1) bash exits with exit code 127 for 'mintty bash'
> 2) 'mintty bash' does not work, but 'mintty ash' and 'mintty tcsh' work.
Right. mintty dash also works.
Notice that I did *not* set enable_pcon (not supported on Win7 anyway).
- Orgad
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