Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
> IMO the question should be asked the other way: how do you avoid
> references to "croak". 
> 
> Adjust preprocessor code in dissociate_if_controlling_tty so that
> croak is not used. Whether that is enough to make cygwin work, I don't
> know. 

Here is the patch I came up with to avoid a reference to croak on the
cygwin platform.