diff -u -r ../fish-2.1.1/reader.cpp ./reader.cpp
--- ../fish-2.1.1/reader.cpp	2014-09-24 05:51:07.000000000 -0400
+++ ./src/reader.cpp	2015-02-05 17:37:16.298415721 -0500
@@ -1961,12 +1961,7 @@
     {
         /* Try reading from the tty; if we get EIO we are orphaned. This is sort of bad because it may block. */
 
-        char *tty = ctermid(NULL);
-        if (! tty)
-        {
-            wperror(L"ctermid");
-            exit_without_destructors(1);
-        }
+        char *tty = "/dev/tty";
 
         /* Open the tty. Presumably this is stdin, but maybe not? */
         int tty_fd = open(tty, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);