XWin requires tty for console log output

[Jon TURNEY]

Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> Jon,
> 
> For some reason which I have yet to investigate, XWin requires a tty to
> the log to the terminal.  That means it will output to terminal in VTs,
> but will not work in ordinary cmd/bash shells without setting
> CYGWIN=tty; instead you will see a cmd window briefly flashing on screen
> when launched.
> 
> Have you seen anything that would be causing this?

No idea.

However, this does explain some confusing reports of no output from XWin; I 
discover I do have CYGWIN=tty in my environment :-)


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