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I am having trouble getting GNU emacs 18.57 to work totaly on a VAX
running Sys V rel. 3. 

The problem occurs when evoking a shell (i.e. m-x shell).  The shell
will come up and function except that it has a ? for a controlling
terminal. Thus the shell can not execute a ps.  In addition the FTPing 
from emacs does not work. (I am not possitive this is related!)

I have extensively followed the code using sdb and have found that
allocate_pty() in process.c is unable to ever open any devices /dev/pty??.
If I am root, the open in allocate_pty() will always return a errno of
5 [EIO]. If i am not root the first time (/dev/pty00) will return errno of
5 and then on a errno of 13 [EACCESS].  This means that the setpgrp() is 
executed, but no pty have been open.  And thus the child loses its 
controlling terminal.

I have a feeling that this is a VAX problem, but wondered if you have
heard of the problem and/or knew of a solution.?

Thanks in advance,

Paul Hart
Member of Technical Staff
Bellcore

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