Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authenticated: #14308112 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:50:49 +0300 From: Pavel Tsekov X-X-Sender: ptsekov@mordor To: Krzysztof Duleba cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mc 4.6.1 - background not working In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Hello, On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > >>Why is background disabled? And why ncurses instead of S-Lang? > > > > Because using the subshell leaves stale subshell processes and each > > time I start to debug this problem I get nowhere due to lack of time. > > I didn't notice this problem. Are you sure it's still there? Yes. I've just verified it - MC from ssh session to Cygwin machine and MC from withing rxvt (non-X) both leave stale shells. > > The problem is pretty complex. Hopefully I'll find the time to find a > > solution for it. > > And btw you are wrong - the MC package has subshell > > support but it is disabled by default. Try `mc --help' . > > Really? My mc configured with --prefix=/usr doesn't agree with that and > subshell works. I don't understand what you are trying to tell me. I was speaking about the offical Cygwin package for MC. $ mc -V GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.1 Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish With builtin Editor Using the ncurses library With optional subshell support <---- With mouse support on xterm With support for X11 events You can start the official mc like `mc -U' and you'll have subshell if you want. It is off by default but it is compiled in. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/