On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:48:30PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >Huang Bambo wrote: >> As showed in the title. >> If I start a shell from cygwin.bat, the "w" and "who" command showed >> nothing while the shell from ssh can. >> And I also think the tty should be pts/x, not ttyx. > >Set "CYGWIN=tty" in your Windows environment if you want/need 'bash' >to register as a terminal when invoked from any 'cmd.exe' (like 'cygwin.bat' >does). See: > ><http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html> > >Note that other terminals (mintty, xterm, rxvt) don't require this because >they know they are terminals.
I think his point was that Cygwin doesn't make a distinction between ttys and ptys. That always sort of bugged me too but it isn't something that is going to be fixed anytime soon. I don't know what the "w", "who" problem is though. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
