Re: Cygwin Subprocesses on XEmacs
Vin Shelton writes:
I spent some time debugging M-x shell in XEmacs on 32-bit Cygwin.
Here's what I found out.
In the child after fork() but before exec(), the setsid() call in
disconnect_controlling_terminal() is causing the subprocess not to
function after it gets spawned.
Here is a patch which works around the problem, enabling M-x shell to
work for bash and zsh (at least):
I can confirm this solves this long-standing problem! Thanks very
much -- stops me beating my head against that wall any more.
I'd be interested to hear some time how you managed to track this down
-- I probably have spent upwards of a person-week trying and failing
to do so. . .
Thanks,
ht
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