Trouble with starting Node.js from a Cygwin console

Question

I have no trouble running node.exe from a regular command prompt:

C:\>node --interactive
> console.log("Works fine");
Works fine

But when I try to do the same thing from a Cygwin console, I run into this:

Olli@Olli-MBRr /cygdrive/c
$ node.exe

events.js:72
        throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
              ^
Error: read ENOTCONN
    at errnoException (net.js:900:11)
    at Socket._read (net.js:391:21)
    at Socket.Readable.read (_stream_readable.js:320:10)
    at Socket.read (net.js:293:43)
    at new Socket (net.js:185:10)
    at process.stdin (node.js:660:19)
    at startup (node.js:145:16)
    at node.js:901:3

At first I thought it might be because Cygwin has trouble with the path name with a space in it (C:\Program Files\nodejs), but after installing node.js to a directory with no spaces in the path name I was unable to resolve the problem.

I would like to run a Node JS console from Emacs (run from Cygwin) using js-comint, but I ran into this error and have no clue how to resolve it.

Answer 1

It won't work from a cygwin console, but it WILL work in a cygwin shell if you run it from a windows console. Just open a command prompt and run Cygwin.bat to get the shell. Then you can run node.

According to this cygwin's console isn't a real console, it's a pipe in disguise.