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From: Trey Greer <greer AT treytronics DOT org>
Subject: Re: "Inappropriate ioctl for device" problem using latest cygwin as a shell within native (non-cygwin) GnuEmac
Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 02:59:57 +0000 (UTC)
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Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu> writes:

> 
> On 3/11/2012 3:42 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> > On 3/11/2012 3:19 PM, Jack Profit wrote:
> >> After upgrading my cygwin environment this morning to version
> >> 1.7.11-1, I am no longer able to use cygwin bash as a shell within
> >> native GnuEmacs (Windows).
> >>
> >> When I invoke M-x shell, I now get the following output in the shell
> >> window:
> >>
> >> bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for
> >> device
> >> bash: no job control in this shell
> >> $
> >>
> >> The shell window is functional, but as the error message suggests, I
> >> have no Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Z or other job control functions.
> >>
> >> Here are my shell related .emacs settings:
> >> (setq explicit-shell-file-name "c:/cygwin/bin/bash.exe")
> >>
> >> I am using:
> >> GnuEmacs version 23.4.1 (latest)
> >> Bash version 4.1.10-4
> >> also Bash version 3.2.51-24 (removes error message, but job control
> >> still doesn't work)
> >>
> >> I also tried the cygwin1.dll from the 3/10 snapshot and saw no
> >> difference in behavior.
> >
> > I doubt if the Cygwin developers are going to be able to track this down
> > unless you can find a way to reproduce the problem without using native
> > emacs. Can you look into the emacs source for the native build and see
> > how it is creating the bash process? Maybe you can extract a simple test
> > case from it.
> 
> Another (easier) thing you could do is try various snapshots between 
> versions 1.7.10 and 1.7.11 of cygwin1.dll and pinpoint exactly when the 
> problem first occurred.
> 
> Ken
> 
> 

Looking through the native (Windows) emacs 23.4.1 source, I don't
see how cygwin bash job control could ever have worked.  When I
do a ctrl-C ctrl-Z (emacs speak for suspend job) in the bash
shell in shell mode, emacs gives me the message 'No SIGTSTP
support'.  Poking through the emacs source, this appears to be
because there is no SIGTSTP defined in windows, or at least not
in the configuration header emacs-23.4/src/s/ms-w32.h.

Emacs in windows does not have PTYS (HAVE_PTYS is not defined in
s/ms-w32.h) so shell-mode opens the cygwin bash shell with input
and output pipes instead of ptys.  A recent change to bash (as of
bash-4.1-alpha) causes bash to refuse job control if the
controlling terminal is not a tty.  See item jj. in the
bash-4.0-alpha entry in the changelog
bash-4.1.10-4/src/bash-4.1/CHANGES.

It looks to me like suspend (ctrl-C ctrl-Z) never worked for
cygwin bash within native windows gnu emacs, but I certainly
could be wrong.  

I did try defeating the tty test mentioned above (in jobs.c in
the bash source).  Indeed, I was able to spawn jobs in the
background and kill them.  Just no signals from emacs.

-- Trey



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