bash postinstall script returns an error

I was going to mention passwd-grp.sh, but I see there's already a thread for that, so I'll move right on to the next one. When I run setup.exe I always get an error for the bash.sh postinstall script, it seems to be on the line of: /bin/test -e /dev/stdin || ln -s /proc/self/fd/0 /dev/stdin

1.7.5 cannot bg mintty

I sometimes forget to append a when opening a new mintty from an existing mintty. With rxvt this was never a problem, just ^Z and bg in the parent terminal (my shell is bash 3.2.49-23). This doesn't seem to work for mintty (0.6.2-1) though - although it seems that the job has has been put

ping: recvfrom: Invalid argument

I've seen this problem mentioned before on this list, but I've just discovered something about it which I thought was worth mentioning (I don't know if this has been reported before). I'm on WinXP SP2 logged on as a non admin. Lets try to ping cygwin.com... PING www.cygwin.com (209.132.176.174):

Issue with 'test' command and network shares on non-domain network

Hello all, I've been seeing a problem with permissions checks using v. 1.5.9 of cygwin on network shares on machines which are not part of a domain with smbntsec set, any command that performs an explicit access check seems to always think that access is denied. I'll pick the 'test' command