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charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable There is a bug out there for using NTEmacs on Windows. NTEmacs on Windows is great setup to use in combination with cygwin. However since quite some time when you launch cygwin as a shell from NTEmac= s it give this error. There is a bug out there for using NTEmacs on Windows. Its been several years and no one has been able to solve it yet. Please look through this and solve it so that cygwin could be used as a she= ll from with in NTEmacs. --_000_BN7PR13MB2401DBEEA808A2BC7C27DB1FE9B30BN7PR13MB2401namp_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
There is a bug out there for using NTEmacs on Windows.

NTEmacs on Windows is great setup to use in combination with cygwin.

However since quite some time when you launch cygwin as a shell from NTEmac= s it give this error.

There is a bug out there for using NTEmacs on Windows.

Its been several years and no one has been able to solve it yet.

Please look through this and solve it so that cygwin could be used as a she= ll from with in NTEmacs.
--_000_BN7PR13MB2401DBEEA808A2BC7C27DB1FE9B30BN7PR13MB2401namp_-- From unknown Fri Aug 15 20:52:29 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#31144: cygwin bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): inappropriate ioctl for device Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 08:56:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 31144 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: Piyush Kapadia Cc: 31144@debbugs.gnu.org Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii Received: via spool by 31144-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B31144.152360971517041 (code B ref 31144); Fri, 13 Apr 2018 08:56:02 +0000 Received: (at 31144) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Apr 2018 08:55:15 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49069 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f6uUF-0004Qn-66 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 04:55:15 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52894) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f6uUD-0004QZ-Ap for 31144@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 04:55:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6uU3-0002Qr-UL for 31144@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 04:55:08 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58232) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6uU3-0002Qn-PX; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 04:55:03 -0400 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1331 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f6uU3-0004aR-2j; Fri, 13 Apr 2018 04:55:03 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 11:55:18 +0300 Message-Id: <83vacv5vux.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: (message from Piyush Kapadia on Fri, 13 Apr 2018 02:00:45 +0000) References: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -6.0 (------) > From: Piyush Kapadia > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 02:00:45 +0000 > > There is a bug out there for using NTEmacs on Windows. > > NTEmacs on Windows is great setup to use in combination with cygwin. > > However since quite some time when you launch cygwin as a shell from NTEmacs it give this error. > > There is a bug out there for using NTEmacs on Windows. > > Its been several years and no one has been able to solve it yet. > > Please look through this and solve it so that cygwin could be used as a shell from with in NTEmacs. I see no such error message in Emacs sources. Unless I missed something, this means the error message comes from Cygwin, and you should first report this problem on the Cygwin mailing list. If the analysis of the Cygwin developers concludes that this is something that should be fixed in Emacs, and indicates how to do that, please come back here with those conclusions, and we will try to see how to fix this. Also, you didn't say which version of Emacs you are using, and where did you get the binaries, if you didn't yourself compile Emacs. If your version of Emacs is old, I suggest to try the latest version (RC1 of Emacs 26.1 was just released and is available from alpha.gnu.org), because it's possible the problem was solved in the meantime. P.S. In general, the combination of the native Windows build of Emacs and Cygwin tools is only semi-supported, as there are subtle incompatibilities between them. You may be better off using the Cygwin build of Emacs, either the one that requires X libraries or the one that uses the native w32 widgets. Thanks. 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