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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:44:59 -0500
From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
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Subject: Re: bash under emacs gives "cannot set terminal process group"
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On 2/27/2012 7:04 AM, leoslists@letterboxes.org wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I upgraded my Cygwin installation to Cygwin dll 1.7.11-1. Since then when I start Cygwin bash under emacs i get the following error message:
>
> 	bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
> 	bash: no job control in this shell
>
> And indeed, I can't stop subprocesses in this shell, which is very inconvenient.
>
> BTW, I invoke bash in emacs with the arguments "--noediting -i". Both are needed.

This is the default when you run M-x shell.

> What can I do about the error message?

I can't reproduce this.  Please give a precise recipe for producing the 
problem, starting from `emacs -Q'.  Also, please follow the 
problem-reporting guidelines at

   http://cygwin.com/problems.html

including the part about attaching cygcheck output.

Ken


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