From: Andrew J. Cosgriff ! (andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au)
Date: 12/21/92


From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: shell in emacs problem
Date: 21 Dec 1992 08:35:22 GMT

jaffer@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Aubrey Jaffer) writes:

>Linux V0.98 from tsx-11 Dec 8
>emacs18.59 from tsx-11 Dec 8
>When I run a shell (/bin/sh) in a window in emacs (not Xemacs) as root
>or su everything works fine. When I try it logged in as someone else,
>after every shell command it prints:

>/bin/sh: [328: 2] tcgetattr: Invalid argument

>(The 328 number changes with every invocation). Additionally,
>isatty() called from a program I run in the shell returns 0.

>I assume that changing the permission on some file will fix this; what
>file???? (i have tried several).

Well, it wouldn't hurt to try a
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/emacs

And see if it helps...

(I think emacs uses 'env' for shells, by the way - maybe that's it...)

Enjoy !

Cos !

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