X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E8BC281.2070909@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:35:45 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: error while running shell in emacs References: <20110930162705 DOT Horde DOT SEW3ZruWis5OhdG5y5EHB8A AT webmail DOT df DOT eu> <4E8BBCD6 DOT 8030904 AT cornell DOT edu> In-Reply-To: <4E8BBCD6.8030904@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 10/4/2011 10:11 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > 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. Replacing -i by -l also works: (call-process "bash" nil '(t t) nil "-lc" "ls -al") -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple