banderso@sagpd1.UUCP (Bruce Anderson) (03/18/89)
I recently installed Gnu Emacs 18.52 on our HP9000/835. The operating system is based on SysV but has Berkeley enhancements including job control. When executing a 'suspend-emacs' function, a new subshell is created rather than actually suspending the editor and returning to the calling shell and I was wondering if this is the normal behaviour for this machine or if I didn't do a proper job of configuring it. - Bruce Anderson | "You seem to think because you've - Scientific Atlanta - GPD | got chicken-to-go, you're alive." - ...!sagpd1!banderso | - Gordon Lightfoot
fkittred@bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge) (03/20/89)
In article <362@sagpd1.UUCP> banderso@sagpd1.UUCP (Bruce Anderson) writes: >I recently installed Gnu Emacs 18.52 on our HP9000/835. The >operating system is based on SysV but has Berkeley enhancements >including job control. When executing a 'suspend-emacs' function, >a new subshell is created rather than actually suspending the >editor and returning to the calling shell and I was wondering >if this is the normal behaviour for this machine or if I didn't >do a proper job of configuring it. > >- Bruce Anderson | "You seem to think because you've >- Scientific Atlanta - GPD | got chicken-to-go, you're alive." >- ...!sagpd1!banderso | - Gordon Lightfoot You definitely have something configured wrong, since suspend-emacs should work via SIGTSTP/SIGCONT on Series 8xx's running HP-UX 2.0 or later. However, it is hard to tell what your problem might be. One thing you could check is that you have the proper machine file included in your "config.h". If you include "m-hp9000s300.h" instead of "m-hp9000s800.h", then NOMULTIPLEJOBS will get defined and NEED_BSDTTY will not get defined. In this case, suspend-emacs will create the sub-shell. regards, fletcher Fletcher E. Kittredge fkittred@bbn.com