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From:	Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri AT yahoo DOT it>
Subject:	Re: R: Why mc start without subshell by default?
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--- Mer 3/11/10, SZABO Gergely  ha scritto:

> Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri
> <at> yahoo.it> writes:
>=20
> >=20
> > --- Mer 3/11/10, Oleksandr Gavenko=A0 ha scritto:
> >=20
> > > I can turn on subshell by:
> > >=20
> > > =A0 $ mc -U
> > >=20
> > > This is useful by default or I miss something?
> > >=20
> > >=20
> >=20
> > It is useful but there is one problem on cygwin.
> > When you close mc the subshell will not exit, so you
> will finish
> > with a "zombie" bash shell running.
> >=20
> > Marco
> >=20
> >=20
>=20
> I thought mc's lacking subshell support is a hard fact of
> life in Cygwin, until
> the -U option was pointed out here. It's a huge
> improvement.
>=20
> It's quite easy to kill the zombie subshells.
> Put a line into /etc/crontab (assuming you're running
> cron):
>=20
> */6 * * * * SYSTEM ps -a | sed -n 's/I=A0
> *\([0-9][0-9]*\)=A0 *1=A0 *..*bash$/\1/p' |
> xargs kill -KILL
>=20
> This will kill all bash processes every 6 minutes, who are
> waiting for input in
> the background (I) and whose parent process (PPID) is 1
> (not a terminal, not mc).
>=20
> Best regards
> Gergely
>=20

That is a workaround, it will be better if=20
Pavel release a mc cygwin package without
this problem...

mc-4.6.1 is 22 months old and eventually 4.7.0.x works
better.

Regards
Marco




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