Problems with emacs shell starting with 2011-05-05 snapshot

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Fri Jun 17 11:20:00 GMT 2011


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
>
> Starting with the 2011-05-28 snapshot, the error message changes to
>
>    Process shell aborted
>
> Starting with the 2011-06-01 snapshot, it changes again, this time to
>
>    Process shell stopped (tty input)
>
> I still get that error message with the 2011-06-14 snapshot.

This is fixed in the 2011-06-16 snapshot.  Thanks.

Ken

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