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#33154
27.0.50; create_process on Darwin should not invoke setsid() after vfork() [PATCH]
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Reported by: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 19:31:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Found in version 27.0.50
Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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On 10/11/2018 09:09 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Filipp Gunbin wrote:
>> On 09/11/2018 12:16 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 09 2018, Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have one failing case: "M-x shell-command sudo ls -la" reports "sudo:
>>>> no tty present and no askpass program specified".
>>>
>>> That's not a bug. If shell-command runs the command synchronously it
>>> doesn't allocate a tty.
>>
>> Are there any reasons for not allocating a pty in this case? A
>> synchronous program may be interactive.
>
> How would the interaction work, though? I can see potential problems with
> existing Lisp code that runs synchronous commands if we allocate ptys
> for them.
Yes, I see, there's no way to interact. Without interaction, there's no
sense in allocating pty.
> At any rate, that case has always failed the same way on Ubuntu 18.04 etc., so
> if this is a problem it's not limited to macOS and someone should file a new bug
> report for it.
No need for that.
Thanks.
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