error while running shell in emacs

[Ken Brown]

On 9/30/2011 10:27 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 sbhc123 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin
>
> I use some Emacs extensions which execute external programs using
> (call-process). This used to work on my previous setup, but it fails on
> my current box. The following command run in Emacs reproduces what seems
> to be the problem:
>
> (call-process "bash" nil '(t t) nil "-ic" "ls -al")
> bash: Kann die Prozessgruppe des Terminals nicht setzen (-1).:
> Inappropriate ioctl for device
> bash: Keine Job Steuerung in dieser Shell.

Markus,

Why are you calling bash with the -i option in this context?  Your first 
`nil' causes bash's input to come from /dev/null.  Does it make sense to 
have an interactive shell with input coming from /dev/null?  If you 
remove -i and just run

(call-process "bash" nil '(t t) nil "-c" "ls -al") ,

it works fine with both cygwin 1.7.9 and the latest snapshot.

Maybe there's still a Cygwin bug here; I tested your original command in 
Linux, and it worked.  But omitting -i might at least be a workaround 
for you.

Ken


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