Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrlnk!uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!tgould!iwm From: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: *shell* and GNU Message-ID: Date: 31 Mar 89 12:34:01 GMT References: <266@rruxjj.UUCP> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, London Lines: 23 In-reply-to: mike5@rruxjj.UUCP's message of 27 Mar 89 14:49:41 GMT Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.2 of Wed Sep 16 1987 on ivax (berkeley-unix) In article <266@rruxjj.UUCP> mike5@rruxjj.UUCP (michael rabinowitz) writes: > I can't seem to get 'M-x shell' to work. Actually, it looks like anything > that I try to run as an interactive, inferior process doesn't work. > I get an error message like this: > Process shell terminated abnormally with 1 We ran into this problem when upgrading from one (minor) version of ultrix to another, the values of some ioctls have changed and an interactive subprocess created by emacs becomes a zombie. Our systyem manager has promised to recompile emacs under the new release and fix this. -- Ian W Moor UUCP: uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!iwm ARPA: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk JANET: iwm@uk.ac.ic.doc Department of Computing We don't need no documentation, Imperial College. We don't need no source control, 180 Queensgate No dark sarcasm in the boardroom, London SW7 UK. Manager! leave those programmers alone!