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Emacs 24.2 vs 24.4 on Solaris: M-x shell and "tty => not a tty"

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: "Warren, John W CIV (US)" <john.w.warren.civ <at> mail.mil>
Subject: bug#20686: closed (Re: Emacs 24.2 vs 24.4 on Solaris: M-x shell
 and "tty => not a tty")
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 23:49:04 +0000

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Your bug report

#20555: "No access to tty" in Emacs shell

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 20686 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Akira Shirai <okshirai <at> gmail.com>
Cc: "Warren, John W CIV \(US\)" <john.w.warren.civ <at> mail.mil>,
 20555-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Georges Ko <gko <at> gko.net>
Subject: Re: Emacs 24.2 vs 24.4 on Solaris: M-x shell and "tty => not a tty"
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:48:10 -0700

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Akira Shirai, thanks for the info about grantpt and its internal setuid program; 
that made the problem obvious.  I installed the attached patch into the Emacs 
master sources and am (perhaps optimistically) marking this bug as done.

[0001-Fix-not-a-tty-bug-on-Solaris-10.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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From: "Warren, John W CIV (US)" <john.w.warren.civ <at> mail.mil>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: "No access to tty" in Emacs shell
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 19:41:50 +0000

Error message in *shell* buffer on entering shell mode:
"Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell..."

Note: The affected system does not have an internet connection,
but I can sneaker-net files across.

John Warren

Output of report-emacs-bug follows:
----------------------------------------

From: john <at> lanai.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.4; No access to tty in Emacs shell
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In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.10, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars)
 of 2015-05-27 on lanai
Windowing system distributor `Sun Microsystems, Inc.', version 11.0.6620
Configured using:
 `configure --with-gif=no --prefix=/home/john/local'

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil

Major mode: Shell

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<escape> x s h e l l <return> <escape> x r e p o r
t - e m a c s - b u g <return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
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Memory information:
((conses 8 76071 5644)
 (symbols 24 17840 0)
 (miscs 20 47 126)
 (strings 16 11244 3372)
 (string-bytes 1 310941)
 (vectors 8 10332)
 (vector-slots 4 399617 2538)
 (floats 8 65 200)
 (intervals 28 220 236)
 (buffers 512 12))

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