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RE: prelude to a new cygwin 1.5.7 release: snapshot available


At 09:46 PM 1/22/2004, Ton van Overbeek you wrote:
>Even with the latest snapshot dll (cygwin1-20040122.dll) I still have
>the same problem as reported by Dirk Fassbender in message
>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-01/msg00796.html:
>When I start ddd gdb is complaining it cannot access /dev/tty1 etc.
>So I am still using 1.5.5.
>This is on Win XP/PRO with an empty CYGWIN environment variable.


Oh, jeez I'm sorry but this qualifies as a "me too" report.  There'll
be no gold star for you from CGF on this one! ;-)


>Any test/strace etc. you want me to run ?
>Or does this rings any bells w.r.t. changes between 1.5.5 and 1.5.6 ?
>There is one change in the 1.5.6 announcement which seems to be related to
>this:
>    - Protect tty access from unauthorized users.  (Pierre Humblet,
>    Christopher Faylor)


Well, it could be useful for you to track down this change in CVS and
build without it to determine whether this is a contributing factor 
or not.  Give it a shot.


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