> > Indeed, it does! When starting it from a desktop shortcut, it works, but
> > when started as a background process, it doesn't.
>
> Ah, so that is the "Cygwin console" # i.e. execution of the file
> Cygwin.bat, located in the "Windows Cygwin root".
Actually no, though the difference doesn't matter - but for the safe
side, here are the gory details:
In a cmd.exe Command window (or, to be more precise, in a command window
hosted by the Console2 console), I use the command
cmd /c c:\cygwin64\bin\zsh -l
to start an interactive zsh Shell, and from *this*, I start a Ruby
program, and from *this*, a mintty is started in the background.
But I can see the effect simpler in this way: Just open a DOS Command
Window, and in the command line type
c:\cygwin64\bin\zsh -c /usr/bin/mintty
and the error can be reproduced. BTW, same effect with bash instead of
zsh.
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