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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:57:54 +0100 (CET)
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT gmx DOT net>
X-X-Sender: ptsekov AT moria DOT atlanticsky DOT com
To: Tihomir Ganev <jackripper2600 AT yahoo DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: midnight commander start new bash proccess after exit
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Tihomir Ganev wrote:
> 
> > Hi all.
> > The problem is that after start mc(midnight commander)
> > and when i
> > exit from it.When i exit new bash shell is start.
> > So when i start and quit 5 times MC in memory reside 6
> > bash
> > proccess.
> 
> This is known issue - I'm aware of it an plan to debug it in the 
> weekend.
> 
> MC doesn't actually start a new shell on exit, but starts the subshell 
> on startup and for some reason it fails to control it properly, so the 
> subshell never dies.
> 
> To fix you problem temorarily start mc like that:
> 
> mc -u
> 
> >From mc --help output:
> -u, --nosubshell       Disables subshell support
> 
> This way MC won't leave any subshells around.

Or better upgrade to mc-4.6.0-2. Should be available on mirrors in several 
hours.



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