[debbugs-tracker] bug#20686: closed ("No access to tty" in Emacs shell)

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Your message dated Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:48:10 -0700
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and subject line Re: Emacs 24.2 vs 24.4 on Solaris: M-x shell and "tty => not a 
tty"
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #20555,
regarding "No access to tty" in Emacs shell
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> "No access to tty" in Emacs shell
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> Thu, 28 May 2015 19:41:50 +0000
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> Error message in *shell* buffer on entering shell mode:
> "Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell..."
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> Note: The affected system does not have an internet connection,
> but I can sneaker-net files across.
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> John Warren
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> Output of report-emacs-bug follows:
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> Subject: 24.4; No access to tty in Emacs shell
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> In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.10, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars)
>  of 2015-05-27 on lanai
> Windowing system distributor `Sun Microsystems, Inc.', version 11.0.6620
> Configured using:
>  `configure --with-gif=no --prefix=/home/john/local'
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LANG: C
>   locale-coding-system: nil
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> Major mode: Shell
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> Minor modes in effect:
>   shell-dirtrack-mode: t
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   electric-indent-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
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> Recent input:
> <escape> x s h e l l <return> <escape> x r e p o r
> t - e m a c s - b u g <return>
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> Recent messages:
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
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> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
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> Features:
> (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml
> easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231
> mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums
> mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils shell pcomplete comint ansi-color
> ring time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks
> lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt
> fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page
> menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock
> syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
> vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek
> romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
> case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice
> loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay
> sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
> hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dynamic-setting
> font-render-setting x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)
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> Memory information:
> ((conses 8 76071 5644)
>  (symbols 24 17840 0)
>  (miscs 20 47 126)
>  (strings 16 11244 3372)
>  (string-bytes 1 310941)
>  (vectors 8 10332)
>  (vector-slots 4 399617 2538)
>  (floats 8 65 200)
>  (intervals 28 220 236)
>  (buffers 512 12))
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: Emacs 24.2 vs 24.4 on Solaris: M-x shell and "tty => not a tty" Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:48:10 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 Akira Shirai, thanks for the info about grantpt and its internal setuid program; that made the problem obvious. I installed the attached patch into the Emacs master sources and am (perhaps optimistically) marking this bug as done.

0001-Fix-not-a-tty-bug-on-Solaris-10.patch
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