bard@THEORY.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bard Bloom) (05/15/88)
I'm using GNU Emacs v18.38 on a microvax running a BSD 4.2 variant. Sometimes, but not always, when I start a subshell (M-x shell, say), it complains: Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell... and a few commands don't work. (Naturally, job-control commands don't. Also, sending a string to the terminal usually causes it to echo the string, except when there's no job control.) Any ideas about how I could fix this? Thanks, Bard Bloom
Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) (05/19/88)
In article <8805151540.AA00920@TOUCAN.LCS.MIT.EDU>, bard@THEORY (Bard Bloom) writes: > > I'm using GNU Emacs v18.38 on a microvax running a BSD 4.2 variant. > Sometimes, but not always, when I start a subshell (M-x shell, say), it > complains: > Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell... Your pseudo-tty's may be screwed up (at least, that was the cause of similar problems at our installation). You might try using crpty(8) to create new ones. Pseudo-tty's are documented in pty(4). -- Ashwin. ARPA: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,harvard,cmcl2,...}!yale!Ram-Ashwin BITNET: Ram@yalecs