wilber@alice.UUCP (Bob Wilber) (04/01/89)
I've been trying to bring up GNU Emacs 18.53 on an Amdahl UTS system. It has ptys so I defined HAVE_PTYS, and I've tried compiling both with and without SYSV_PTYS defined. The problem: I do "M-x shell" and a shell buffer with a prompt ($) appears but Emacs then hangs completely. Input to the shell doesn't work and Emacs commands like C-x C-c fail too. In fact I have to break my login connection to get out of "wedged mode". Stepping through with sdb I find that the ptyp/ttyp pair is successfully opened and the child process is successfully spawned. Does anyone know what the problem is? If anyone has succeeded in getting ptys to work with Emacs under Amdahl UTS I'd like to know how you did it. Bob Wilber wilber@research.att.com