Problems with emacs shell starting with 2011-05-05 snapshot
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu Jun 16 19:34:00 GMT 2011
On 6/16/2011 2:43 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 6/15/2011 5:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> Starting with the 2011-05-05 snapshot, I can't start a shell under emacs. Here are the steps to reproduce:
>>
>> 1. Start emacs in a mintty window.
>> 2. Type<Alt-x>shell<enter>
>>
>> This yields the following error message in the shell buffer:
>>
>> sh: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
>> sh: no job control in this shell
>>
>
> The problem with the 2011-05-05 snapshot goes away if I build
> cygwin1.dll myself. I used a CVS checkout as of 2011-05-05 22:31, which
> seems to be cutoff for that snapshot. The last change in the ChangeLog is
>
> 2011-05-05 Christopher Faylor<...>
>
> * cygheap.cc (cygheap::close_ctty): Close ctty via close_with_arch().
> * debug.cc (close_handle): Call debugger on failure.
> [...]
>
> I don't understand this. I simply built cygwin1.dll according to the
> instructions in the FAQ.
Please disregard this message. I did something stupid and didn't really
test my build.
Sorry for the noise. I'll write again after doing some more careful
testing.
Ken
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