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Re: Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:42:59PM -0800, peter360 wrote:
>Indeed! It turns out I was using c:\WINDOWS\System32\ssh.exe, which I have
>no idea how it got there... I installed openssh and the problem was fixed.
>Thanks!
>
>Just out of curiosity, how does a program check if stdin is a "terminal"?
>My xterm looks like a terminal to me but apparently the windows version of
>ssh.exe couldn't figure that out...
Windows doesn't know what a "terminal" is. Cygwin invents its own concept
but only Cygwin programs are aware of this.
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