Can't kill a process within shell-mode (mac osx 10.3 Panther)

Can't kill a process within shell-mode (mac osx 10.3 Panther)

[Ray Hixson]

Hi,
I'm using GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0) of
2003-10-25 on darkstar.local.
I use shell-mode constantly within emacs for example to tail log
files. The problem I'm having with this release is that Control-C
Control-C does not kill the tail.
And any other running process from that shell cannot be killed as
well.

any tips?

thanks
Ray

Re: Can't kill a process within shell-mode (mac osx 10.3 Panther)

[Kevin Rodgers]

Ray Hixson wrote:

> I'm using GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0) of
> 2003-10-25 on darkstar.local.
> I use shell-mode constantly within emacs for example to tail log
> files. The problem I'm having with this release is that Control-C
> Control-C does not kill the tail.
> And any other running process from that shell cannot be killed as
> well.


If your platform has the pkill command, you could work around the problem

with something like:


M-! pkill -x tail


-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: Can't kill a process within shell-mode (mac osx 10.3 Panther)

[Kin Cho]

ray@zenfoo.com (Ray Hixson) writes:

> Hi,
> I'm using GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0) of
> 2003-10-25 on darkstar.local.
> I use shell-mode constantly within emacs for example to tail log
> files. The problem I'm having with this release is that Control-C
> Control-C does not kill the tail.

What does the C-c C-c do in the shell buffer?

Try C-q C-c RET

-kin

> And any other running process from that shell cannot be killed as
> well.

Re: Can't kill a process within shell-mode (mac osx 10.3 Panther)

[Ray Hixson]

Kin Cho <ignore-this-prefixkin@techie.com> wrote in message news:<7ibrq8gvpb.fsf@neoscale.com>...
> 
> What does the C-c C-c do in the shell buffer?
> 
> Try C-q C-c RET
> 
> -kin
> 

C-c C-c is echoed back and it has absolutely no effect.
I tried C-q C-c and it's the same - it echoes 'C-c' in the buffer and
does nothing to the tail

I can look up the tail pid and kill it (in another shell) and that
works, bringing my shell back to the prompt.

Ray