Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU!gnulists From: gnulists@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Thanks! (was: GNU Emacs hands under BSD 4.3 (help)) Message-ID: <8903281225.AA26163@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu> Date: 28 Mar 89 12:25:19 GMT Sender: daemon@eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: dph@lanl.gov Lines: 62 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 22 Mar 84 05:50:50 EST From: MAILER-DAEMON@eddie.mit.edu (Mail Delivery Subsystem) Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1 To: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- resolve 'eeg!doug' = 'ames!lll-winken!eeg!doug' @ 'll-xn' (UUCP) resolve 'noao!asuvax!nud!rcb' = 'ncar!noao!asuvax!nud!rcb' @ 'gatech' (UUCP) inews: Cannot get user's name 554 "|/usr/local/lib/news/nrecnews -n comp.emacs -x mirror"... unknown mailer error 1 ----- Unsent message follows ----- Received: by EDDIE.MIT.EDU with sendmail-5.45/4.7 id ; Thu, 22 Mar 84 05:50:50 EST Received: from prep.ai.mit.edu by life.ai.mit.edu; Wed, 22 Mar 89 17:00:55 EST Received: from TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU by prep.ai.mit.edu; Wed, 22 Mar 89 16:31:07 EST Received: by tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (5.59/3.890314) id AA08552; Wed, 22 Mar 89 13:54:09 EST Received: from USENET by tut.cis.ohio-state.edu with netnews for info-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu (info-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu) (contact usenet@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu if you have questions) Date: 22 Mar 89 17:49:25 GMT From: dph@lanl.gov (David Huelsbeck) Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Subject: Thanks! (was: GNU Emacs hands under BSD 4.3 (help)) Message-Id: <10935@lanl.gov> References: <16252@cos.com> Sender: info-gnu-emacs-request@prep.ai.mit.edu To: info-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Thanks to everyone that responded. I've installed the patch and it's now working. In fact, I'm using it under vn to send this follow up. For those that may be having the same problem use the old emacs.c from 18.52. If you've already got the new source undo the following patch. From: kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rich Kaul) *** emacs.c Thu Mar 2 23:09:05 1989 --- emacs.c.53 Thu Mar 2 23:08:28 1989 *************** *** 224,229 setuid (getuid ()); #endif HIGHPRI inhibit_window_system = 0; #ifdef HAVE_X_WINDOWS --- 224,234 ----- setuid (getuid ()); #endif HIGHPRI + #ifdef BSD + /* interrupt_input has trouble if we aren't in a separate process group. */ + setpgrp (getpid (), getpid ()); + #endif + inhibit_window_system = 0; #ifdef HAVE_X_WINDOWS