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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:54:29 -0400
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 6/25/2012 4:46 PM, sethflash wrote:
>
> I just updated my cygwin and also have the same problem under ntemacs.
> Following another suggestion somewhere I recompiled bash eliminating the
> test for using a pty in jobs.c (line 3703) and I no longer get the error,
> but I still can't terminate or suspend any jobs.  Very hard to use the shell
> if you can't kill a job. :)
>
> Does anyone have any solutions or know if anyone is working on this?

One solution is to use Cygwin's emacs instead of native Windows emacs. 
I don't know of anyone who is working on other solutions.

Ken Brown
Cygwin's emacs maintainer


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