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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 12:41:07 +0100 (CET)
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT gmx DOT net>
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To: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Midnight Commander does not close shell in rxvt
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On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote:

> I start Midnight Commander in a rxvt window. After quitting mc, the 
> spawned shell (bash or zsh) is not teminated - leaving a "zombie" 
> shell process.
> 
> This doesn't happen when mc is started in "normal" console window.

I've noticed this already, but in different situation - when I run MC from 
ssh session. Never payed too much attention when I run it in rxvt, 
because I don't use rxvt alot.

A similiar (if not the same) problem existed before. It was a problem in 
Cygwin itself and with the combined efforts of Christopher Faylor, Pavel 
Roskin (the MC maintainer) and myself we succeeded to solve it at some 
point.

I'll debug next week and see if this is the same problem or another one.

Hopefully a fix will become available shortly. A short term solution is to 
disable the subshell (mc -u). mc-4.5.55 was built without subshell support 
at all because I was aware of the problem at the time of the release. 

I wonder if I should upload a new version without the subshell support 
until I fix this ?

P.S. Thanks for all of your bug reports.


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